Topological Exciton Bands in Moire Heterojunctions.
Abstract
Moire patterns are common in Van der Waals heterostructures and can be used to apply periodic potentials to elementary excitations. Here, we show that the optical absorption spectrum of transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers is profoundly altered by long period moire patterns that introduce twist-angle dependent satellite excitonic peaks. Topological exciton bands with non-zero Chern numbers that support chiral excitonic edge states can be engineered by combining three ingredients: i) the valley Berry phase induced by electron-hole exchange interactions, ii) the moire potential, and iii) the valley Zeeman field.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Welch foundation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1352892
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1349974
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; SC0012670
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Wu, Fengcheng, Lovorn, Timothy, and MacDonald, A. H. Topological Exciton Bands in Moire Heterojunctions.. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.147401.
Wu, Fengcheng, Lovorn, Timothy, & MacDonald, A. H. Topological Exciton Bands in Moire Heterojunctions.. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.147401
Wu, Fengcheng, Lovorn, Timothy, and MacDonald, A. H. Wed .
"Topological Exciton Bands in Moire Heterojunctions.". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.147401. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1352892.
@article{osti_1352892,
title = {Topological Exciton Bands in Moire Heterojunctions.},
author = {Wu, Fengcheng and Lovorn, Timothy and MacDonald, A. H.},
abstractNote = {Moire patterns are common in Van der Waals heterostructures and can be used to apply periodic potentials to elementary excitations. Here, we show that the optical absorption spectrum of transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers is profoundly altered by long period moire patterns that introduce twist-angle dependent satellite excitonic peaks. Topological exciton bands with non-zero Chern numbers that support chiral excitonic edge states can be engineered by combining three ingredients: i) the valley Berry phase induced by electron-hole exchange interactions, ii) the moire potential, and iii) the valley Zeeman field.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.147401},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 14,
volume = 118,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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