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Hierarchical Relaxation in Large-twist-angle Moire Drives Supermoire Formation
Chuqiao Shi, Giovanny Espitia, Yanxing Li +9
Supermoire lattices in large-angle twisted bilayers have recently been shown to emerge from periodic arrangements of commensurate stacking motifs, yet the microscopic structural me…
(Sub)nanoscale Visualization of Reconstruction-Driven Moiré Exciton Localization and Delocalization
Medha Dandu, Sriram Sankar, Giovanny Espitia +12
Spectral fingerprints in optical absorption and emission have typically been used as a signature of exciton localization in twisted moiré bilayers. However, the mechanism by which…
Topology and compact molecular orbitals in twisted bilayer WSe
Chenyuan Li, Rwik Dutta, Fang Xie +4
Recent observations of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe (tWSe) have motivated theoretical proposals for unconventional pairing mechanisms. A central question is whe…
Exciton valley depolarization in monolayer MoS2: non-Markovian quantum dynamics, intervalley scattering, and the breakdown of the Dyakonov-Perel mechanism
Yang-hao Chan, Jonah B. Haber, Mit H. Naik +2
In monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, exciton valley relaxation is typically attributed to the Dyakonov-Perel (DP) mechanism, where frequent intravalley scattering with ph…
Moiré Phonons and Emergent Exciton-Phonon Coupling in a Moiré Heterobilayer
Can B. Uzundal, Woochang Kim, Zhiyuan Cui +13
Moiré superlattices have emerged as a new platform for engineering electronic and optical properties in van der Waals heterostructures, enabling control over correlated and exciton…
Tunable Interlayer Charge-transfer States in MoSe/WS Moiré Superlattices
Zheyu Lu, Jiahui Nie, Tianle Wang +15
Moiré superlattices formed by transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers provide a versatile platform for studying strongly correlated electronic, excitonic, and topologi…
Signatures of moiré intralayer biexcitons and exciton-phason coupling in WSe2/WS2 heterostructures
Ranju Dalal, Harsimran Singh, Rwik Dutta +6
Interactions among electronic and lattice degrees-of-freedom are foundational to various phases in condensed-matter physics, yet the dynamic interplay between excitonic and phononi…
Imaging Electron-Hole Asymmetry in the Quantum Melting of Generalized Wigner Crystals
Emma Berger, Michael Arumainayagam, Zhihuan Dong +12
Two-dimensional moiré materials provide a versatile platform to explore phase transitions in strongly correlated systems. Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) we have imaged t…
Quasi-one-dimensional taco-shaped bands in large-angle twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Giovanny Espitia, Seung Hun Lee, Calvin Kaiyu Chiu +2
Two-dimensional moiré materials offer a powerful, twist-tunable platform for engineering electronic bands and correlations, though most studies to date have focused on small twist…
Moiré excitons in generalized Wigner crystals
Jing-Yang You, Chih-En Hsu, Zien Zhu +8
Moiré superlattices of transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers host strong Coulomb interactions residing in narrow electron bands, leading to correlated insulating states at fract…
Quantum Theory of Exciton Magnetic Moment: Interaction and Topological Effects
Gurjyot Sethi, Jiawei Ruan, Fang Zhang +4
Combining magnetometry with optical spectroscopy has uncovered novel quantum phenomena and is emerging as a powerful probe of quantum materials. However, the theory of the magnetic…
Exciton-defect interaction and optical properties from a first-principles T-matrix approach
Yang-hao Chan, Jonah B. Haber, Mit H. Naik +2
Understanding exciton-defect interactions is critical for optimizing optoelectronic and quantum information applications in many materials. However, ab initio simulations of materi…
Exciton thermalization dynamics in monolayer MoS2: a first-principles Boltzmann equation study
Yang-hao Chan, Jonah B. Haber, Mit H. Naik +4
Understanding exciton thermalization is critical for optimizing optoelectronic and photocatalytic processes in many materials. However, it is hard to access the dynamics of such pr…
Imaging Tunable Luttinger Liquid Systems in van der Waals Heterostructures
Hongyuan Li, Ziyu Xiang, Tianle Wang +16
One-dimensional (1D) interacting electrons are often described as a Luttinger liquid1-4 having properties that are intrinsically different from Fermi liquids in higher dimensions5,…
Quantum Melting of a Disordered Wigner Solid
Ziyu Xiang, Hongyuan Li, Jianghan Xiao +15
The behavior of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in extreme coupling limits are reasonably well-understood, but our understanding of intermediate region remains limited. Strongl…
Exciton-phonon coupling induces new pathway for ultrafast intralayer-to-interlayer exciton transition and interlayer charge transfer in WS2-MoS2 heterostructure: a first-principles study
Yang-hao Chan, Mit H. Naik, Jonah B. Haber +4
Despite the weak, van-der-Waals interlayer coupling, photoinduced charge transfer vertically across atomically thin interfaces can occur within surprisingly fast, sub-50fs timescal…
Terahertz phonon engineering with van der Waals heterostructures
Yoseob Yoon, Zheyu Lu, Can Uzundal +11
Phononic engineering at gigahertz (GHz) frequencies form the foundation of microwave acoustic filters, acousto-optic modulators, and quantum transducers. Terahertz (THz) phononic e…
Imaging Moiré Excited States with Photocurrent Tunneling Microscopy
Hongyuan Li, Ziyu Xiang, Mit H. Naik +12
Moiré superlattices provide a highly tunable and versatile platform to explore novel quantum phases and exotic excited states ranging from correlated insulators1-17 to moiré excito…
Excitonic interactions and mechanism for ultrafast interlayer photoexcited response in van der Waals heterostructures
Chen Hu, Mit H. Naik, Yang-Hao Chan +1
Optical dynamics in van der Waals heterobilayers is of fundamental scientific and practical interest. Based on a time-dependent adiabatic GW approach, we discover a new many-electr…
Exciton lifetime and optical linewidth profile via exciton-phonon interactions: Theory and first-principles calculations for monolayer MoS
Y. -H. Chan, Jonah B. Haber, Mit H. Naik +4
Exciton dynamics dictate the evolution of photoexcited carriers in photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices. However, interpreting their experimental signatures is a challenging the…
Hyperspectral imaging of excitons within a moiré unit-cell with a sub-nanometer electron probe
Sandhya Susarla, Mit H. Naik, Daria D. Blach +9
Electronic and optical excitations in two-dimensional moiré systems are uniquely sensitive to local atomic registries, leading to materials- and twist-angle specific correlated ele…
Nature of novel moiré exciton states in WSe/WS heterobilayers
Mit H. Naik, Emma C. Regan, Zuocheng Zhang +18
Moiré patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers have proven to be an ideal platform to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism, and cor…
Moiré induced topology and flat bands in twisted bilayer WSe: A first-principles study
Sudipta Kundu, Mit H. Naik, H. R. Krishnamurthy +1
We study the influence of strong spin-orbit interaction on the formation of flat bands in relaxed twisted bilayer WSe. Flat bands, well separated in energy, emerge at the band…
Imaging local discharge cascades for correlated electrons in WS2/WSe2 moiré superlattices
Hongyuan Li, Shaowei Li, Mit H. Naik +14
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) moiré heterostructures provide an ideal platform to explore the extended Hubbard model1 where long-range Coulomb interactions play a critical…