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Palekar, Chirag Chandrakant ; Faria Junior, Paulo E. ; Manthei, Tobias ; Nagel, Maximilian ; Sahoo, Bhabani Sankar ; Machchhar, Shachi ; Limame, Imad ; Podhorský, Martin ; Fabian, Jaroslav ; Rosa, Bárbara ; Reitzenstein, Stephan

Resolving High-Energy States of Interlayer Excitons in MoSe₂/WSe₂ Heterostructures

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Palekar, Chirag Chandrakant, Faria Junior, Paulo E. , Manthei, Tobias, Nagel, Maximilian, Sahoo, Bhabani Sankar, Machchhar, Shachi, Limame, Imad, Podhorský, Martin, Fabian, Jaroslav , Rosa, Bárbara and Reitzenstein, Stephan (2026) Resolving High-Energy States of Interlayer Excitons in MoSe₂/WSe₂ Heterostructures. ArXiv preprint. (Submitted)

DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.80332


Abstract

High-energy states of interlayer excitons (IXs) in van der Waals heterostructures remain largely unexplored despite their importance for understanding many-body interactions and nonlinear optical phenomena. Here, we use photoluminescence excitation (PLE) spectroscopy to resolve a Rydberg-like series of excited IX states in MoSe₂/WSe₂ heterostructures. We observe multiple PLE resonances below the ...

High-energy states of interlayer excitons (IXs) in van der Waals heterostructures remain largely unexplored despite their importance for understanding many-body interactions and nonlinear optical phenomena. Here, we use photoluminescence excitation (PLE) spectroscopy to resolve a Rydberg-like series of excited IX states in MoSe₂/WSe₂ heterostructures. We observe multiple PLE resonances below the intralayer exciton energies, which we assign to the 2s-, 3s-, and 4s-like states of the IXs. These resonances are consistently observed across heterostructures with different twist angles, indicating that the high-energy state spectrum is only weakly affected by the twist angle. Wannier-exciton calculations incorporating screened Coulomb interactions reproduce the overall energy scale and qualitative trends of the measured Rydberg-like series, supporting the assignment of the observed resonances. Our findings demonstrate that PLE provides direct experimental access to the previously unexplored high-energy IX states in van der Waals heterostructures.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleArXiv preprint
Open Access TypeOA-Version in anderem Repositorium
Date3 August 2026
Date of publication11 Aug 2026 05:09
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Jaroslav Fabian
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Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (443416183)
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (314695032)
Funded by: Europäische Kommission (EU) (881603)
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10.48550/arXiv.2608.02040DOI
2608.02040arXiv ID
KeywordsInterlayer excitons, Rydberg series, high-energy interlayer excitons, twist angle
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusSubmitted
RefereedNo, this version has not been refereed yet (as with preprints)
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-803321
Item ID80332

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