Lian Zhen, Chen Dongxue, Meng Yuze, Chen Xiaotong, Su Ying, Banerjee Rounak, Taniguchi Takashi, Watanabe Kenji, Tongay Sefaattin, Zhang Chuanwei, Cui Yong-Tao, Shi Su-Fei
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
Department of Physics, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, 75083, USA.
Nat Commun. 2023 Aug 19;14(1):5042. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40783-z.
Moiré superlattices of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides enable unprecedented spatial control of electron wavefunctions, leading to emerging quantum states. The breaking of translational symmetry further introduces a new degree of freedom: high symmetry moiré sites of energy minima behaving as spatially separated quantum dots. We demonstrate the superposition between two moiré sites by constructing a trilayer WSe/monolayer WS moiré heterojunction. The two moiré sites in the first layer WSe interfacing WS allow the formation of two different interlayer excitons, with the hole residing in either moiré site of the first layer WSe and the electron in the third layer WSe. An electric field can drive the hybridization of either of the interlayer excitons with the intralayer excitons in the third WSe layer, realizing the continuous tuning of interlayer exciton hopping between two moiré sites and a superposition of the two interlayer excitons, distinctively different from the natural trilayer WSe.
半导体过渡金属二硫属化物的莫尔超晶格实现了对电子波函数前所未有的空间控制,从而产生了新兴的量子态。平移对称性的破缺进一步引入了一个新的自由度:能量最小值的高对称莫尔位点表现为空间分离的量子点。我们通过构建一个三层WSe/单层WS莫尔异质结来演示两个莫尔位点之间的叠加。第一层WSe与WS界面处的两个莫尔位点允许形成两种不同的层间激子,空穴位于第一层WSe的任意一个莫尔位点,电子位于第三层WSe。电场可以驱动其中一个层间激子与第三层WSe中的层内激子发生杂化,实现层间激子在两个莫尔位点之间跳跃的连续调谐以及两种层间激子的叠加,这与天然的三层WSe有显著不同。