Effective long-range attraction of moiré excitons under the influence of atomic reconstructions and anisotropic screening
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| author | Schütte, Nils-Erik Nielsen, Carl Emil Mørch Götting, Niclas Steinhoff, Alexander Bester, Gabriel Gies, Christopher |
| author_facet | Schütte, Nils-Erik Nielsen, Carl Emil Mørch Götting, Niclas Steinhoff, Alexander Bester, Gabriel Gies, Christopher |
| contents | The moiré pattern, which emerges due to a relative rotation between two monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, features a long lattice period for small twist angles. The resulting band structure modulation acts as an effective potential for interlayer excitons (IXs), which can realize correlated many-body phenomena. Here, we aim for a material-realistic modelling of the exciton-exciton interaction, taking into account lattice reconstructions and an exciton-exciton potential that incorporates the highly anisotropic screening imposed by the two-dimensional bilayer and the dielectric background. We find strong modifications of the on-site interaction induced by the change of the moiré potential during lattice reconstructions, while for long-range interactions on the length scale of the moiré period, anisotropic dielectric screening leads to a crossover from a repulsive to an attractive interaction. The interaction potential and hopping amplitudes serve as parameters for a Bose-Hubbard model on the moiré lattice, which we use to explain correlated behavior of interlayer excitons. |
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| spellingShingle | Effective long-range attraction of moiré excitons under the influence of atomic reconstructions and anisotropic screening Schütte, Nils-Erik Nielsen, Carl Emil Mørch Götting, Niclas Steinhoff, Alexander Bester, Gabriel Gies, Christopher Materials Science The moiré pattern, which emerges due to a relative rotation between two monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, features a long lattice period for small twist angles. The resulting band structure modulation acts as an effective potential for interlayer excitons (IXs), which can realize correlated many-body phenomena. Here, we aim for a material-realistic modelling of the exciton-exciton interaction, taking into account lattice reconstructions and an exciton-exciton potential that incorporates the highly anisotropic screening imposed by the two-dimensional bilayer and the dielectric background. We find strong modifications of the on-site interaction induced by the change of the moiré potential during lattice reconstructions, while for long-range interactions on the length scale of the moiré period, anisotropic dielectric screening leads to a crossover from a repulsive to an attractive interaction. The interaction potential and hopping amplitudes serve as parameters for a Bose-Hubbard model on the moiré lattice, which we use to explain correlated behavior of interlayer excitons. |
| title | Effective long-range attraction of moiré excitons under the influence of atomic reconstructions and anisotropic screening |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04667 |