Evidence for Exciton Crystals in a 2D Semiconductor Heterotrilayer

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Yusong Bai Yiliu Li Song Liu Yinjie Guo Jordan Pack Jue Wang Cory R. Dean James Hone X. -Y. Zhu
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Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their moir\'e interfaces have been demonstrated for correlated electron states, including Mott insulators and electron/hole crystals commensurate with moir\'e superlattices. Here we present spectroscopic evidences for ordered bosons - interlayer exciton crystals in a WSe2/MoSe2/WSe2 trilayer, where the enhanced Coulomb interactions over those in heterobilayers have been predicted to result in exciton ordering. While the dipolar interlayer excitons in the heterobilayer may be ordered by the periodic moir\'e traps, their mutual repulsion results in de-trapping at exciton density n_ex larger than 10^11 cm^-2 to form mobile exciton gases and further to electron-hole plasmas, both accompanied by broadening in photoluminescence (PL) peaks and large increases in mobility. In contrast, ordered interlayer excitons in the trilayer are characterized by negligible mobility and by sharper PL peaks persisting to n_ex approximately 10^12 cm^-2. We present evidences for the predicted quadrupolar exciton crystal and its transitions to dipolar excitons either with increasing n_ex or by an applied electric field. These ordered interlayer excitons may serve as models for the exploration of quantum phase transitions and quantum coherent phenomena.

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