Influence of resonant plasmonic nanoparticles on optically accessing the valley degree of freedom in 2D semiconductors

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Autores principales: Bucher, Tobias, Fedorova, Zlata, Abasifard, Mostafa, Mupparapu, Rajeshkumar, Wurdack, Matthias J., Najafidehaghani, Emad, Gan, Ziyang, Knopf, Heiko, George, Antony, Eilenberger, Falk, Pertsch, Thomas, Turchanin, Andrey, Staude, Isabelle
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author Bucher, Tobias
Fedorova, Zlata
Abasifard, Mostafa
Mupparapu, Rajeshkumar
Wurdack, Matthias J.
Najafidehaghani, Emad
Gan, Ziyang
Knopf, Heiko
George, Antony
Eilenberger, Falk
Pertsch, Thomas
Turchanin, Andrey
Staude, Isabelle
author_facet Bucher, Tobias
Fedorova, Zlata
Abasifard, Mostafa
Mupparapu, Rajeshkumar
Wurdack, Matthias J.
Najafidehaghani, Emad
Gan, Ziyang
Knopf, Heiko
George, Antony
Eilenberger, Falk
Pertsch, Thomas
Turchanin, Andrey
Staude, Isabelle
contents The valley degree of freedom is one of the most intriguing properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. Together with the possibility to address this degree of freedom by valley-contrasting optical selection rules, it has the potential to enable a completely new class of future electronic and optoelectronic devices. Resonant optical nanostructures emerge as promising tools for interacting with and controlling the valley degree of freedom at the nanoscale. However, a critical understanding gap remains in how nanostructures and their nearfields affect the circular polarization properties of valley-selective emission hindering further developments in this field. In order to address this issue, our study delves into the experimental investigation of a hybrid model system where valley-specific emission from a monolayer of molybdenum disulfide is interacting with a resonant plasmonic nanosphere. Contrary to the simple intuition suggesting that a centrosymmetric nanoresonator preserves the degree of circular polarization in the forward scattered farfield by angular momentum conservation, our cryogenic photoluminescence microscopy reveals that the light emitted from the nanoparticle position is largely unpolarized, i.e. we observe depolarization. We rigorously study the nature of this phenomenon numerically considering the monolayer-nanoparticle interaction at different levels including excitation and emission. In doing so, we find that the farfield degree of polarization strongly reduces in the hybrid system when including excitons emitting from outside of the system's symmetry point, which in combination with depolarisation at the excitation level causes the observed effect. Our results highlight the importance of considering spatially distributed emitters for precise predictions of polarization responses in these hybrid systems.
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spellingShingle Influence of resonant plasmonic nanoparticles on optically accessing the valley degree of freedom in 2D semiconductors
Bucher, Tobias
Fedorova, Zlata
Abasifard, Mostafa
Mupparapu, Rajeshkumar
Wurdack, Matthias J.
Najafidehaghani, Emad
Gan, Ziyang
Knopf, Heiko
George, Antony
Eilenberger, Falk
Pertsch, Thomas
Turchanin, Andrey
Staude, Isabelle
Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The valley degree of freedom is one of the most intriguing properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. Together with the possibility to address this degree of freedom by valley-contrasting optical selection rules, it has the potential to enable a completely new class of future electronic and optoelectronic devices. Resonant optical nanostructures emerge as promising tools for interacting with and controlling the valley degree of freedom at the nanoscale. However, a critical understanding gap remains in how nanostructures and their nearfields affect the circular polarization properties of valley-selective emission hindering further developments in this field. In order to address this issue, our study delves into the experimental investigation of a hybrid model system where valley-specific emission from a monolayer of molybdenum disulfide is interacting with a resonant plasmonic nanosphere. Contrary to the simple intuition suggesting that a centrosymmetric nanoresonator preserves the degree of circular polarization in the forward scattered farfield by angular momentum conservation, our cryogenic photoluminescence microscopy reveals that the light emitted from the nanoparticle position is largely unpolarized, i.e. we observe depolarization. We rigorously study the nature of this phenomenon numerically considering the monolayer-nanoparticle interaction at different levels including excitation and emission. In doing so, we find that the farfield degree of polarization strongly reduces in the hybrid system when including excitons emitting from outside of the system's symmetry point, which in combination with depolarisation at the excitation level causes the observed effect. Our results highlight the importance of considering spatially distributed emitters for precise predictions of polarization responses in these hybrid systems.
title Influence of resonant plasmonic nanoparticles on optically accessing the valley degree of freedom in 2D semiconductors
topic Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13372