Room-temperature Tamm-plasmon exciton-polaritons with a WSe2 monolayer

• DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13328
• Publication Date: 2016-10-31T10:04:48Z
• Authors: Nils Lundt; Sebastian Klembt; Evgeniia Cherotch...; Simon Betzold; Oliver Iff; Anton V. Nalitov; Martin Klaas; Christof P. Dietrich; Alexey V. Kavokin; Sven Höfling; Christian Schneider
• Keywords: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics; Science; ddc:530; Q; NDAS; FOS: Physical sciences; 02 engineering and technology; 540; 530; 7. Clean energy; Article; QC Physics; Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases; 0210 nano-technology; QC; Physics - Optics; Optics (physics.optics)

AbstractSolid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics is a rapidly advancing field, which explores the frontiers of light–matter coupling. Metal-based approaches are of particular interest in this field, as they carry the potential to squeeze optical modes to spaces significantly below the diffraction limit. Transition metal dichalcogenides are ideally suited as the active material in cavity quantum electrodynamics, as they interact strongly with light at the ultimate monolayer limit. Here, we implement a Tamm-plasmon-polariton structure and study the coupling to a monolayer of WSe2, hosting highly stable excitons. Exciton-polariton formation at room temperature is manifested in the characteristic energy–momentum dispersion relation studied in photoluminescence, featuring an anti-crossing between the exciton and photon modes with a Rabi-splitting of 23.5 meV. Creating polaritonic quasiparticles in monolithic, compact architectures with atomic monolayers under ambient conditions is a crucial step towards the exploration of nonlinearities, macroscopic coherence and advanced spinor physics with novel, low-mass bosons.