Exciton Superposition across Moiré States in a Semiconducting Moiré Superlattice.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-40783-z and PMC identifier 10439888.
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Abstract
Moiré superlattices of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides enable unprecedented spatial control of electron wavefunctions, leading to emerging quantum states. The breaking of translational symmetry further introduces a new degree of freedom: high symmetry moiré sites of energy minima behaving as spatially separated quantum dots. We demonstrate the superposition between two moiré sites by constructing a trilayer WSe<sub>2</sub>/monolayer WS<sub>2</sub> moiré heterojunction. The two moiré sites in the first layer WSe<sub>2</sub> interfacing WS<sub>2</sub> allow the formation of two different interlayer excitons, with the hole residing in either moiré site of the first layer WSe<sub>2</sub> and the electron in the third layer WSe<sub>2</sub>. An electric field can drive the hybridization of either of the interlayer excitons with the intralayer excitons in the third WSe<sub>2</sub> layer, realizing the continuous tuning of interlayer exciton hopping between two moiré sites and a superposition of the two interlayer excitons, distinctively different from the natural trilayer WSe<sub>2</sub>.