Bilayer Wigner crystals in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructure

Y Zhou, J Sung, E Brutschea, I Esterlis, Y Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
One of the first theoretically predicted manifestations of strong interactions in many-electron
systems was the Wigner crystal,–, in which electrons crystallize into a regular lattice. The …

Optical signatures of periodic charge distribution in a Mott-like correlated insulator state

Y Shimazaki, C Kuhlenkamp, I Schwartz, T Smoleński… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The elementary optical excitations in two-dimensional semiconductors hosting itinerant
electrons are attractive and repulsive polarons—excitons that are dynamically screened by …

Evidence for electron–hole crystals in a Mott insulator

Z Qiu, Y Han, K Noori, Z Chen, M Kashchenko, L Lin… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The coexistence of correlated electron and hole crystals enables the realization of quantum
excitonic states, capable of hosting counterflow superfluidity and topological orders with …

Optically controllable magnetism in atomically thin semiconductors

K Hao, R Shreiner, A Kindseth, AA High - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
We report evidence that ferromagnetic order in electrostatically doped, monolayer transition
metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors can be stabilized and controlled at zero …

Spin polarons and ferromagnetism in doped dilute moiré-Mott insulators

UFP Seifert, L Balents - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Moiré heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit Mott-insulating
behavior both at half filling as well as at fractional fillings, where electronic degrees of …

Intra-and inter-band magneto-optical absorption in monolayer WS2

PT Huong, D Muoi, TN Bich, HV Phuc… - Physica E: Low …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the optical absorption coefficients (OACs) and the refractive index changes
(RICs) due to both intra-and inter-band transitions in monolayer WS 2 are theoretically …

Controllable trions in buckled two-dimensional materials

RY Kezerashvili, SM Tsiklauri, A Spiridonova - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We predict the formation of intravalley and intervalley controllable trions in buckled two-
dimensional (2D) materials such as silicene, germanene, and stanene monolayers in an …

Melting of electronic/excitonic crystals in 2D semiconductor moiré patterns: A perspective from the Lindemann criterion

J Zhou, J Tang, H Yu - Chinese Physics B, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Using the Lindemann criterion, we analyzed the quantum and thermal melting of
electronic/excitonic crystals recently discovered in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor …

Phonons of electronic crystals in two‐dimensional semiconductor moiré patterns

H Yu, J Zhou - Natural Sciences, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We theoretically studied the phonon properties of the triangular‐, stripe‐, and honeycomb‐
type electronic crystals recently found in two‐dimensional semiconductor moiré patterns. By …

Effective velocities of polaron spin states in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Y Sun, XF Ma, XY Liu, Y Cui, JP Deng… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a theoretical model for studying the effective velocities of polaron spin states in
monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDS) on the substrate. It is found that the …