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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar
Optical signatures of interlayer electron coherence in a bilayer semiconductor
Date: Thursday, October 31st
Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Place: 5310 Chamberlin
Speaker: Pavel Dolgirev , Harvard University
Abstract: Emergent strongly-correlated electronic phenomena in atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides are an exciting frontier in condensed matter physics, with examples ranging from bilayer superconductivity and electronic Wigner crystals to the ongoing quest for exciton condensation. Here, we experimentally investigate the properties of indirect excitons in naturally-grown MoS2-homobilayer, integrated in a dual-gate device structure allowing independent control of the electron density and out-of-plane electric field. Under conditions when electron tunneling between the layers is negligible, upon electron doping the sample, we observe that the two excitons with opposing dipoles hybridize, displaying unusual behavior distinct from both conventional level crossing and anti-crossing. We show that these observations can be explained by static random coupling between the excitons, which increases with electron density and decreases with temperature. We argue that this phenomenon is indicative of a spatially fluctuating order parameter in the form of interlayer electron coherence, a theoretically predicted many-body state that has yet to be unambiguously established experimentally outside of the quantum Hall regime. Implications of our findings for future experiments and quantum optics applications are discussed.
Host: Ilya Esterlis
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