Spontaneous Valley Polarization of Interacting Carriers in a Monolayer Semiconductor
Abstract
Here, we report magnetoabsorption spectroscopy of gated monolayers in high magnetic fields up to 60 T. When doped with a 2D Fermi sea of mobile holes, well-resolved sequences of optical transitions are observed in both circular polarizations, which unambiguously and separately indicate the number of filled Landau levels (LLs) in both and valleys. This reveals the interaction-enhanced valley Zeeman energy, which is found to be highly tunable with hole density . We exploit this tunability to align the LLs in and , and find that the 2D hole gas becomes unstable against small changes in LL filling and can spontaneously valley polarize. These results cannot be understood within a single-particle picture, highlighting the importance of exchange interactions in determining the ground state of 2D carriers in monolayer semiconductors.
- Authors:
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1735918
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-20-25746
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; TRN: US2205271
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; SC0018171; DMR-1644779
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 125; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; exchange interaction; valleytronics; transition-metal dichalcogenide; two-dimensional electron system; optical spectroscopy
Citation Formats
Li, Jing, Goryca, Mateusz Marek, Wilson, Nathan P., Stier, Andreas V., Xu, Xiaodong, and Crooker, Scott A. Spontaneous Valley Polarization of Interacting Carriers in a Monolayer Semiconductor. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.125.147602.
Li, Jing, Goryca, Mateusz Marek, Wilson, Nathan P., Stier, Andreas V., Xu, Xiaodong, & Crooker, Scott A. Spontaneous Valley Polarization of Interacting Carriers in a Monolayer Semiconductor. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.147602
Li, Jing, Goryca, Mateusz Marek, Wilson, Nathan P., Stier, Andreas V., Xu, Xiaodong, and Crooker, Scott A. Fri .
"Spontaneous Valley Polarization of Interacting Carriers in a Monolayer Semiconductor". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.147602. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1735918.
@article{osti_1735918,
title = {Spontaneous Valley Polarization of Interacting Carriers in a Monolayer Semiconductor},
author = {Li, Jing and Goryca, Mateusz Marek and Wilson, Nathan P. and Stier, Andreas V. and Xu, Xiaodong and Crooker, Scott A.},
abstractNote = {Here, we report magnetoabsorption spectroscopy of gated WSe2 monolayers in high magnetic fields up to 60 T. When doped with a 2D Fermi sea of mobile holes, well-resolved sequences of optical transitions are observed in both σ± circular polarizations, which unambiguously and separately indicate the number of filled Landau levels (LLs) in both K and K' valleys. This reveals the interaction-enhanced valley Zeeman energy, which is found to be highly tunable with hole density p. We exploit this tunability to align the LLs in K and K', and find that the 2D hole gas becomes unstable against small changes in LL filling and can spontaneously valley polarize. These results cannot be understood within a single-particle picture, highlighting the importance of exchange interactions in determining the ground state of 2D carriers in monolayer semiconductors.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.125.147602},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 14,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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