Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator

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Autores principales: Upadhyay, Pranshoo, Suárez-Forero, Daniel G., Huang, Tsung-Sheng, Mehrabad, Mahmoud Jalali, Gao, Beini, Sarkar, Supratik, Session, Deric, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Zhou, You, Knap, Michael, Hafezi, Mohammad
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author Upadhyay, Pranshoo
Suárez-Forero, Daniel G.
Huang, Tsung-Sheng
Mehrabad, Mahmoud Jalali
Gao, Beini
Sarkar, Supratik
Session, Deric
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Zhou, You
Knap, Michael
Hafezi, Mohammad
author_facet Upadhyay, Pranshoo
Suárez-Forero, Daniel G.
Huang, Tsung-Sheng
Mehrabad, Mahmoud Jalali
Gao, Beini
Sarkar, Supratik
Session, Deric
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Zhou, You
Knap, Michael
Hafezi, Mohammad
contents Bose-Fermi mixtures naturally appear in various physical systems. In semiconductor heterostructures, such mixtures can be realized, with bosons as excitons and fermions as dopant charges. However, the complexity of these hybrid systems challenges the comprehension of the mechanisms that determine physical properties such as mobility. In this study, we investigate interlayer exciton diffusion in an H-stacked WSe$_2$/WS$_2$ heterobilayer. Our measurements are performed in the ultra-low exciton density regime at low temperatures to examine how the presence of charges affects exciton mobility. Remarkably, for charge doping near the Mott insulator phase, we observe a giant enhancement of exciton diffusion of three orders of magnitude compared to charge neutrality. We attribute this observation to mobile valence holes, which experience a suppressed moiré potential due to the electronic charge order in the conduction band, and recombine with any conduction electron in a non-monogamous manner. This new mechanism emerges for sufficiently large fillings in the vicinity of correlated generalized Wigner crystal and Mott insulating states. Our results demonstrate the potential to characterize correlated electron states through exciton diffusion and provide insights into the rich interplay of bosons and fermions in semiconductor heterostructures.
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spellingShingle Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator
Upadhyay, Pranshoo
Suárez-Forero, Daniel G.
Huang, Tsung-Sheng
Mehrabad, Mahmoud Jalali
Gao, Beini
Sarkar, Supratik
Session, Deric
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Zhou, You
Knap, Michael
Hafezi, Mohammad
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Bose-Fermi mixtures naturally appear in various physical systems. In semiconductor heterostructures, such mixtures can be realized, with bosons as excitons and fermions as dopant charges. However, the complexity of these hybrid systems challenges the comprehension of the mechanisms that determine physical properties such as mobility. In this study, we investigate interlayer exciton diffusion in an H-stacked WSe$_2$/WS$_2$ heterobilayer. Our measurements are performed in the ultra-low exciton density regime at low temperatures to examine how the presence of charges affects exciton mobility. Remarkably, for charge doping near the Mott insulator phase, we observe a giant enhancement of exciton diffusion of three orders of magnitude compared to charge neutrality. We attribute this observation to mobile valence holes, which experience a suppressed moiré potential due to the electronic charge order in the conduction band, and recombine with any conduction electron in a non-monogamous manner. This new mechanism emerges for sufficiently large fillings in the vicinity of correlated generalized Wigner crystal and Mott insulating states. Our results demonstrate the potential to characterize correlated electron states through exciton diffusion and provide insights into the rich interplay of bosons and fermions in semiconductor heterostructures.
title Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18357