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 …

Interactions mediated by atoms, photons, electrons, and excitons

R Paredes, G Bruun, A Camacho-Guardian - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Interactions between quasiparticles mediated by a surrounding environment are ubiquitous
and lead to a range of important effects from collective modes of low-temperature quantum …

Excitons and polaritons<? pag\break?> in two-dimensional transition<? pag\break?> metal dichalcogenides: a tutorial

E Paik, L Zhang, K Fai Mak, J Shan… - Advances in Optics and …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Since the discovery of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers as
direct bandgap semiconductors with pronounced room-temperature exciton transitions …

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 …

An electronic microemulsion phase emerging from a quantum crystal-to-liquid transition

J Sung, J Wang, I Esterlis, PA Volkov, G Scuri, Y Zhou… - Nature Physics, 2025 - nature.com
Strongly interacting electronic systems often exhibit a complicated phase diagram that
results from the competition between different quantum ground states. One feature of these …

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 …

Spin waves with source-free time-dependent spin density functional theory

JL Bologa, CA Ullrich - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Time-dependent spin-density functional theory (TD-SDFT) allows the theoretical description
of spin and magnetization dynamics in electronic systems from first principles. TD-SDFT …