Formation of moiré interlayer excitons in space and time
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In this paper , femtosecond photoemission momentum microscopy is used to obtain energy-momentum fingerprints of the interlayer excitons by mapping their spectral signatures within the mini Brillouin zone that is built up by the twisted heterostructure.Abstract:
Moir\'e superlattices in atomically thin van-der-Waals heterostructures hold great promise for an extended control of electronic and valleytronic lifetimes, the confinement of excitons in artificial moir\'e lattices, and the formation of novel exotic quantum phases. Such moir\'e-induced emergent phenomena are particularly strong for interlayer excitons, where the hole and the electron are localized in different layers of the heterostructure. In order to exploit the full potential of correlated moir\'e and exciton physics, a thorough understanding of the ultrafast interlayer exciton formation process and the real-space wavefunction confinement in the moir\'e potential is indispensable. However, direct experimental access to these parameters is limited since most excitonic quasiparticles are optically dark. Here we show that femtosecond photoemission momentum microscopy provides quantitative access to these key properties of the moir\'e interlayer excitons. We find that interlayer excitons are dominantly formed on the sub-50~fs timescale via interlayer tunneling at the K valleys of the Brillouin zones. In addition, we directly measure energy-momentum fingerprints of the moir\'e interlayer excitons by mapping their spectral signatures within the mini Brillouin zone that is built up by the twisted heterostructure. From these momentum-fingerprints, we gain quantitative access to the modulation of the exciton wavefunction within the moir\'e potential in real-space. Our work provides the first direct access to the interlayer moir\'e exciton formation dynamics in space and time and reveals new opportunities to study correlated moir\'e and exciton physics for the future realization of exotic quantum phases of matter. read more
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