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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 type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | ArXiv preprint | ||||||
| Open Access Type | OA-Version in anderem Repositorium | ||||||
| Date | 3 August 2026 | ||||||
| Date of publication | 11 Aug 2026 05:09 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > 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)
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Europäische Kommission (EU)
(881603)
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| Keywords | Interlayer excitons, Rydberg series, high-energy interlayer excitons, twist angle | ||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||||
| Status | Submitted | ||||||
| Refereed | No, this version has not been refereed yet (as with preprints) | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-803321 | ||||||
| Item ID | 80332 |
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