Magnetic Control of Dark-Bright Exciton Splitting in Monolayer MoSe<sub>2</sub>

ORAL

Abstract

Excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), depending on the spin configuration of the conduction and valence band, can be either optically bright or dark. Even though spin-forbidden transitions are optically dark, these dark excitons have been observed in tungsten based TMDCs by adding in-plane magnetic field or via near-field coupling to surface plasmon polaritons [1,2]. However, in MoSe2, the direct observation of dark excitons and the value of the bright-dark exciton splitting are still missing. We have performed low temperature magneto-photoluminescence (PL) and broadband reflection contrast measurements on BN encapsulated monolayer MoSe2. The experiments reveal the dark exciton brightening and energy shift of bright and dark exciton branches by in-plane magnetic field. Both branches follow B2 field dependence in magnetic fields up to about 14T as expected from a two-band model. By analyzing the field evolution of exciton branches, we extracted the value of zero-field bright-dark exciton splitting and excitons g-factors.
[1] Zhang, X.-X. et al. Nat. Nanotech. 12. 883-888 (2017).
[2] Zhou, Y. et al. Nat. Nanotech. 12. 865-860 (2017).

*DOE DE-FG02-07ER46451

Presenters

  • Zhengguang Lu

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
    • Florida State Universtiy
    • Physics, Florida State University
    • Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
    • NHMFL, FSU

Authors

  • Zhengguang Lu

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
    • Florida State Universtiy
    • Physics, Florida State University
    • Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
    • NHMFL, FSU
  • Daniel Rhodes

    • Columbia Univ
    • Physics, Columbia Univ
    • Columbia University
    • Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Jonathan Ludwig

    • NHMFL
    • Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
  • Yuxuan Jiang

    • 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
    • Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
  • Seongphill Moon

    • 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
    • Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
  • Komalavalli Thirunavukkuarasu

    • Florida A&M Univ
    • Physics, Florida A&M University
    • Florida A&M University
    • Florida A&M Univ.
  • Zhigang Jiang

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • James Hone

    • Columbia University
    • Columbia Univ
    • Mechanical Engineering, Columbia Univ.
    • Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
    • Physics, Columbia Univ
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Dmitry Smirnov

    • 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
    • Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
    • NHMFL
    • Condensed Matter Science, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
    • NHMFL, FSU