Exciton-Exciton Interactions in Van der Waals Heterobilayers
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Abstract
Exciton-exciton interactions are key to understanding nonlinear optical and transport phenomena in van der Waals heterobilayers, which emerged as versatile platforms to study correlated electronic states. We present a combined theory-experiment study of excitonic many-body effects based on first-principle band structures and Coulomb interaction matrix elements. Key to our approach is the explicit treatment of the fermionic substructure of excitons and dynamical screening effects for density-induced energy renormalization and dissipation. We demonstrate that dipolar blueshifts are almost perfectly compensated by many-body effects, mainly by screening-induced self-energy corrections. Moreover, we identify a crossover between attractive and repulsive behavior at elevated exciton densities. Theoretical findings are supported by experimental studies of spectrally narrow, mobile interlayer excitons in atomically reconstructed, h-BN-encapsulated MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers. Both theory and experiment show energy renormalization on a scale of a few meV even for high injection densities in the vicinity of the Mott transition. Our results revise the established picture of dipolar repulsion dominating exciton-exciton interactions in van der Waals heterostructures and open up opportunities for their external design.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 031025 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Physical Review X |
| Volume | 14 (2024) |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Aug 2024 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-9213-2777/work/196666292 |
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