Twist-tailoring Coulomb correlations in van der Waals homobilayers

Philipp Merkl, Fabian Mooshammer, Samuel Brem, Anna Girnghuber, Kai-Qiang Lin, Leonard Weigl, Marlene Liebich, Chaw-Keong Yong, Roland Gillen, Janina Maultzsch, John M. Lupton, Ermin Malic () and Rupert Huber ()
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Philipp Merkl: University of Regensburg
Fabian Mooshammer: University of Regensburg
Samuel Brem: Chalmers University of Technology
Anna Girnghuber: University of Regensburg
Kai-Qiang Lin: University of Regensburg
Leonard Weigl: University of Regensburg
Marlene Liebich: University of Regensburg
Chaw-Keong Yong: University of Regensburg
Roland Gillen: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Janina Maultzsch: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
John M. Lupton: University of Regensburg
Ermin Malic: Chalmers University of Technology
Rupert Huber: University of Regensburg

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract The recent discovery of artificial phase transitions induced by stacking monolayer materials at magic twist angles represents a paradigm shift for solid state physics. Twist-induced changes of the single-particle band structure have been studied extensively, yet a precise understanding of the underlying Coulomb correlations has remained challenging. Here we reveal in experiment and theory, how the twist angle alone affects the Coulomb-induced internal structure and mutual interactions of excitons. In homobilayers of WSe2, we trace the internal 1s–2p resonance of excitons with phase-locked mid-infrared pulses as a function of the twist angle. Remarkably, the exciton binding energy is renormalized by up to a factor of two, their lifetime exhibits an enhancement by more than an order of magnitude, and the exciton-exciton interaction is widely tunable. Our work opens the possibility of tailoring quasiparticles in search of unexplored phases of matter in a broad range of van der Waals heterostructures.

Date: 2020
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