52 research outputs found
Anomalous light cones and valley optical selection rules of interlayer excitons in twisted heterobilayers
We show that, because of the inevitable twist and lattice mismatch in
heterobilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, interlayer excitons have
six-fold degenerate light cones anomalously located at finite velocities on the
parabolic energy dispersion. The photon emissions at each light cone are
elliptically polarized, with major axis locked to the direction of exciton
velocity, and helicity specified by the valley indices of the electron and the
hole. These finite-velocity light cones allow unprecedented possibilities to
optically inject valley polarization and valley current, and the observation of
both direct and inverse valley Hall effects, by exciting interlayer excitons.
Our findings suggest potential excitonic circuits with valley functionalities,
and unique opportunities to study exciton dynamics and condensation phenomena
in semiconducting 2D heterostructures.Comment: Including the Supplemental Material
Spin-valley qubit in nanostructures of monolayer semiconductors: Optical control and hyperfine interaction
We investigate the optical control possibilities of spin-valley qubit carried
by single electrons localized in nanostructures of monolayer TMDs, including
small quantum dots formed by lateral heterojunction and charged impurities. The
quantum controls are discussed when the confinement induces valley
hybridization and when the valley hybridization is absent. We show that the
bulk valley and spin optical selection rules can be inherited in different
forms in the two scenarios, both of which allow the definition of spin-valley
qubit with desired optical controllability. We also investigate nuclear spin
induced decoherence and quantum control of electron-nuclear spin entanglement
via intervalley terms of the hyperfine interaction. Optically controlled
two-qubit operations in a single quantum dot are discussed.Comment: 17pages, 10 figure
Quantum-state engineering in cavity magnomechanics formed by two-dimensional magnetic materials
Cavity magnomechanics has become an ideal platform to explore macroscopic
quantum effects. Bringing together magnons, phonons, and photons in a single
physical system, it opens many opportunities for quantum technologies. It was
conventionally realized by a yttrium iron garnet, which exhibits a linear
magnon-phonon coupling , with
and being the magnon and phonon modes. Inspired by the
recent realization of two-dimensional (2D) magnets, we propose a new cavity
magnomechanical system with one of the cavity mirror formed by a 2D magnetic
material. Its anisotropic magnetostrictive interaction induces a unique
nonlinear phonon-magnon coupling .
It is found that a stable squeezing of the phonon and bi- and tri-partite
entanglements among the three modes are generated in the regimes with a
suppressed phonon number. Compared with previous schemes, ours does not require
any extra nonlinear interaction and reservoir engineering and is robust against
the thermal fluctuation. Enriching the realization of cavity magnomechanics,
our system exhibits its superiority in quantum-state engineering due to the
versatile interactions enabled by its 2D feature.Comment: 7 pages and 3 figures in the main text. 3 pages in the supplemental
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Correlation-induced symmetry-broken states in large-angle twisted bilayer graphene on MoS2
Strongly correlated states are commonly emerged in twisted bilayer graphene
(TBG) with magic-angle, where the electron-electron (e-e) interaction U becomes
prominent relative to the small bandwidth W of the nearly flat band. However,
the stringent requirement of this magic angle makes the sample preparation and
the further application facing great challenges. Here, using scanning tunneling
microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS), we demonstrate that the
correlation-induced symmetry-broken states can also be achieved in a 3.45{\deg}
TBG, via engineering this non-magic-angle TBG into regimes of U/W > 1. We
enhance the e-e interaction through controlling the microscopic dielectric
environment by using a MoS2 substrate. Simultaneously, the bandwidth of the
low-energy van Hove singularity (VHS) peak is reduced by enhancing the
interlayer coupling via STM tip modulation. When partially filled, the VHS peak
exhibits a giant splitting into two states flanked the Fermi level and shows a
symmetry-broken LDOS distribution with a stripy charge order, which confirms
the existence of strong correlation effect in our 3.45{\deg} TBG. Our result
paves the way for the study and application of the correlation physics in TBGs
with a wider range of twist angle
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