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Lin, Kai-Qiang ; Faria Junior, Paulo E. ; Bauer, Jonas M. ; Peng, Bo ; Monserrat, Bartomeu ; Gmitra, Martin ; Fabian, Jaroslav ; Bange, Sebastian ; Lupton, John M.

Twist-angle engineering of excitonic quantum interference and optical nonlinearities in stacked 2D semiconductors

Lin, Kai-Qiang , Faria Junior, Paulo E., Bauer, Jonas M., Peng, Bo , Monserrat, Bartomeu, Gmitra, Martin, Fabian, Jaroslav , Bange, Sebastian und Lupton, John M. (2021) Twist-angle engineering of excitonic quantum interference and optical nonlinearities in stacked 2D semiconductors. Nature Communications 12 (1), S. 1-7.

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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.46382


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Twist-engineering of the electronic structure in van-der-Waals layered materials relies predominantly on band hybridization between layers. Band-edge states in transition-metal-dichalcogenide semiconductors are localized around the metal atoms at the center of the three-atom layer and are therefore not particularly susceptible to twisting. Here, we report that high-lying excitons in bilayer WSe2 ...

Twist-engineering of the electronic structure in van-der-Waals layered materials relies predominantly on band hybridization between layers. Band-edge states in transition-metal-dichalcogenide semiconductors are localized around the metal atoms at the center of the three-atom layer and are therefore not particularly susceptible to twisting. Here, we report that high-lying excitons in bilayer WSe2 can be tuned over 235meV by twisting, with a twist-angle susceptibility of 8.1meV/degrees, an order of magnitude larger than that of the band-edge A-exciton. This tunability arises because the electronic states associated with upper conduction bands delocalize into the chalcogenide atoms. The effect gives control over excitonic quantum interference, revealed in selective activation and deactivation of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in second-harmonic generation. Such a degree of freedom does not exist in conventional dilute atomic-gas systems, where EIT was originally established, and allows us to shape the frequency dependence, i.e., the dispersion, of the optical nonlinearity. Here, the authors report on the large twist-angle susceptibility of excitons involving upper conduction bands in transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers. These high-lying excitons couple with band-edge excitons, and give rise to nonlinear quantum-optical processes that become tuneable by twisting.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftNature Communications
Verlag:Nature
Ort der Veröffentlichung:BERLIN
Band:12
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels:1
Seitenbereich:S. 1-7
Datum10 März 2021
InstitutionenPhysik > Institut für Theoretische Physik > Lehrstuhl Professor Richter > Arbeitsgruppe Jaroslav Fabian
Physik > Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik > Lehrstuhl Professor Lupton > Arbeitsgruppe John Lupton
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WertTyp
10.1038/s41467-021-21547-zDOI
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-463825
Dokumenten-ID46382

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