TY - GEN
T1 - Coherent quantum dynamics of excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
AU - Moody, Galan
AU - Hao, Kai
AU - Dass, Chandriker Kavir
AU - Singh, Akshay
AU - Xu, Lixiang
AU - Tran, Kha
AU - Chen, Chang-Hsiao
AU - Li, Ming-yang
AU - Li, Lain-Jong
AU - Clark, Genevieve
AU - Bergh äuser, Gunnar
AU - Malic, Ermin
AU - Knorr, Andreas
AU - Xu, Xiaodong
AU - Li, Xiaoqin
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The experimental work at UT-Austin is supported partially by AFOSR grant number FA9550-10-1-0022, NSF
DMR-1306878, and Welch Foundation F-1662. X.L. acknowledges support from a Humboldt fellowship. L.J.L.
thanks support from KAUST Saudi Arabia, Academia Sinica Taiwan, and AOARD-134137 USA. C.H.C. thanks
support from Ministry of Science and Technology Taiwan (MOST 104-2218-E-035-010 and 104-2628-E-035-002-
MY3). G.C. and X.X. are supported by DoE BES (DE-SC0008145 and DE-SC0012509). The Berlin group is
thankful to the German Science Foundation within the collaborative research center 951.
PY - 2016/3/14
Y1 - 2016/3/14
N2 - Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered considerable interest in recent years owing to their layer thickness-dependent optoelectronic properties. In monolayer TMDs, the large carrier effective masses, strong quantum confinement, and reduced dielectric screening lead to pronounced exciton resonances with remarkably large binding energies and coupled spin and valley degrees of freedom (valley excitons). Coherent control of valley excitons for atomically thin optoelectronics and valleytronics requires understanding and quantifying sources of exciton decoherence. In this work, we reveal how exciton-exciton and exciton-phonon scattering influence the coherent quantum dynamics of valley excitons in monolayer TMDs, specifically tungsten diselenide (WSe2), using two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy. Excitation-density and temperature dependent measurements of the homogeneous linewidth (inversely proportional to the optical coherence time) reveal that exciton-exciton and exciton-phonon interactions are significantly stronger compared to quasi-2D quantum wells and 3D bulk materials. The residual homogeneous linewidth extrapolated to zero excitation density and temperature is ~1:6 meV (equivalent to a coherence time of 0.4 ps), which is limited only by the population recombination lifetime in this sample. © (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
AB - Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered considerable interest in recent years owing to their layer thickness-dependent optoelectronic properties. In monolayer TMDs, the large carrier effective masses, strong quantum confinement, and reduced dielectric screening lead to pronounced exciton resonances with remarkably large binding energies and coupled spin and valley degrees of freedom (valley excitons). Coherent control of valley excitons for atomically thin optoelectronics and valleytronics requires understanding and quantifying sources of exciton decoherence. In this work, we reveal how exciton-exciton and exciton-phonon scattering influence the coherent quantum dynamics of valley excitons in monolayer TMDs, specifically tungsten diselenide (WSe2), using two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy. Excitation-density and temperature dependent measurements of the homogeneous linewidth (inversely proportional to the optical coherence time) reveal that exciton-exciton and exciton-phonon interactions are significantly stronger compared to quasi-2D quantum wells and 3D bulk materials. The residual homogeneous linewidth extrapolated to zero excitation density and temperature is ~1:6 meV (equivalent to a coherence time of 0.4 ps), which is limited only by the population recombination lifetime in this sample. © (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/618219
UR - http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?doi=10.1117/12.2209203
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84981303382&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.2209203
DO - 10.1117/12.2209203
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781628419818
BT - Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XX
PB - SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
ER -