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Valley coherent exciton-polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor
摘要： Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a unique possibility to generate and read-out excitonic valley coherence using linearly polarized light, opening the way to valley information transfer between distant systems. However, these excitons have short lifetimes (ps) and efficiently lose their valley coherence via the electron-hole exchange interaction. Here, we show that control of these processes can be gained by embedding a monolayer of WSe2 in an optical microcavity, forming part-light-part-matter exciton-polaritons. We demonstrate optical initialization of valley coherent polariton populations, exhibiting luminescence with a linear polarization degree up to 3 times higher than displayed by bare excitons. We utilize an external magnetic field alongside selective exciton-cavity-mode detuning to control the polariton valley pseudospin vector rotation, which reaches 45° at B = 8 T. This work provides unique insight into the decoherence mechanisms in TMDs and demonstrates the potential for engineering the valley pseudospin dynamics in monolayer semiconductors embedded in photonic structures.
关键词： Exciton-polaritons,Valley pseudospin dynamics,TMDs,Microcavity,Valley coherence
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36
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Self-shaping of cavity-polariton systems created by resonant broadband excitation
摘要： The dynamics of a pure low polariton (LP) system created by resonant broadband excitation in a wide range of wave vectors was investigated in a high-Q GaAs-based microcavity. The LP system is shown to inherit the high spatial coherence from the laser pulse and does not lose it during decay. As a result, its dynamics is well controlled by the spatial and momentum distributions of photons in the exciting pulse and described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equations. In particular, the purely dynamic formation of the highly populated coherent LP state was implemented at the LP band bottom in the cavity excited in a large spot by converging ps-long Gaussian laser pulses when the active region of the cavity is in front of its waist. The formed state is found to persist for several picoseconds until the LP-LP repulsion leads to the creation of high-energy LPs dissipating from the ground state with high velocities.
关键词： resonant excitation,polariton,microcavity,coherent state,Gross-Pitaevskii equations
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46
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Dynamic theory of nanophotonic control of two-dimensional semiconductor nonlinearities
摘要： We introduce a Maxwell-Bloch simulation approach which self-consistently combines a microscopic description of the carrier and polarization dynamics of a transition-metal-dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayer with a spatiotemporal full-wave time-domain simulation of Maxwell’s equations on the basis of a ?nite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method beyond the slowly varying amplitude or paraxial approximations. This offers a platform to realistically model, in particular, the typical ultrafast optical excitation experiments in micro- and nanocavities. Our simulations con?rm that the weak screening of the Coulomb interaction in TMDC monolayers yields pronounced exciton lines in the linear spectrum and we uncover the second-order nonlinearity represented in the semiconductor Maxwell-Bloch equations by an intraband dipole moment. This allows us to calculate the spectral shape of the exceptionally strong second-harmonic generation around the exciton lines of TMDC monolayers. We demonstrate that the second-harmonic signal can remarkably be further enhanced by several orders of magnitude through a suitably designed (one-dimensional) photonic microcavity. Due to its self-consistency, ?exibility, explicit spatio-temporal resolution on the nanoscale and the ready access to light ?eld and electron dynamics, our theory and computational approach is an ideal platform to design and explore spatiotemporal nonlinear and quantum dynamics in complex photonic or plasmonic micro- and nanostructures for optoelectronic, nanophotonic and quantum applications of TMDC monolayers.
关键词： second-harmonic generation,nonlinear optical response,TMDC monolayer,Maxwell-Bloch simulation,photonic microcavity
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46