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Strain-Induced Exciton Hybridization in WS2 Monolayers Unveiled by Zeeman-Splitting Measurements

Elena Blundo, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Alessandro Surrente, Giorgio Pettinari, Mikhail A. Prosnikov, Katarzyna Olkowska-Pucko, Klaus Zollner, Tomasz Woźniak, Andrey Chaves, Tomasz Kazimierczuk, Marco Felici, Adam Babiński, Maciej R. Molas, Peter C. M. Christianen, Jaroslav Fabian, and Antonio Polimeni
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 067402 – Published 4 August 2022
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Abstract

Mechanical deformations and ensuing strain are routinely exploited to tune the band gap energy and to enhance the functionalities of two-dimensional crystals. In this Letter, we show that strain leads also to a strong modification of the exciton magnetic moment in WS2 monolayers. Zeeman-splitting measurements under magnetic fields up to 28.5 T were performed on single, one-layer-thick WS2 microbubbles. The strain of the bubbles causes a hybridization of k-space direct and indirect excitons resulting in a sizable decrease in the modulus of the g factor of the ground-state exciton. These findings indicate that strain may have major effects on the way the valley number of excitons can be used to process binary information in two-dimensional crystals.

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  • Received 22 December 2021
  • Accepted 9 June 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.067402

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Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Elena Blundo1,*, Paulo E. Faria Junior2,†, Alessandro Surrente1,3, Giorgio Pettinari4, Mikhail A. Prosnikov5, Katarzyna Olkowska-Pucko6, Klaus Zollner2, Tomasz Woźniak7, Andrey Chaves8,9, Tomasz Kazimierczuk6, Marco Felici1, Adam Babiński6, Maciej R. Molas6, Peter C. M. Christianen5, Jaroslav Fabian2, and Antonio Polimeni1,‡

  • 1Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
  • 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
  • 3Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
  • 4Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, National Research Council, 00156 Rome, Italy
  • 5High Field Magnet Laboratory, HFML-EMFL, Radboud University, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • 6Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
  • 7Department of Semiconductor Materials Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
  • 8Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60455-900 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
  • 9Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium

  • *Corresponding author. elena.blundo@uniroma1.it
  • Corresponding author. fariajunior.pe@gmail.com
  • Corresponding author. antonio.polimeni@uniroma1.it

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Vol. 129, Iss. 6 — 5 August 2022

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