Excitonic Valley Effects in Monolayer WS2 under High Magnetic Fields

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04171
• Publication Date: 2016-11-21T23:38:59Z
• Authors: Gerd Plechinger; Philipp Nagler; Ashish Arora; Andrés Granados d...; Mariana V. Ballottin; Tobias Frank; Philipp Steinleitner; Martin Gmitra; Jaroslav Fabian; Peter C. M. Chris...; Rudolf Bratschitsch; Christian Schüller; Tobias Korn
• Keywords: Soft Condensed Matter & Nanomaterials (HFML); Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics; Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); FOS: Physical sciences; Correlated Electron Systems / High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML)

Transition-metal dichalcogenides can be easily produced as atomically thin sheets, exhibiting the possibility to optically polarize and read out the valley pseudospin of extremely stable excitonic quasiparticles present in these 2D semiconductors. Here, we investigate a monolayer of tungsten disulphide in high magnetic fields up to 30\,T via photoluminescence spectroscopy at low temperatures. The valley degeneracy is lifted for all optical features, particularly for excitons, singlet and triplet trions, for which we determine the g factor separately. While the observation of a diamagnetic shift of the exciton and trion resonances gives us insight into the real-space extension of these quasiparticles, magnetic field induced valley polarization effects shed light onto the exciton and trion dispersion relations in reciprocal space. The field dependence of the trion valley polarizations is in line with the predicted trion splitting into singlet and triplet configurations.