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Optical valley Hall effect for highly valley-coherent exciton-polaritons in an atomically thin semiconductor

Optical valley Hall effect for highly valley-coherent exciton-polaritons in an atomically thin semiconductor
Optical valley Hall effect for highly valley-coherent exciton-polaritons in an atomically thin semiconductor

Spin–orbit coupling is a fundamental mechanism that connects the spin of a charge carrier with its momentum. In the optical domain, an analogous synthetic spin–orbit coupling is accessible by engineering optical anisotropies in photonic materials. Both yield the possibility of creating devices that directly harness spin and polarization as information carriers. Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides promise intrinsic spin-valley Hall features for free carriers, excitons and photons. Here we demonstrate spin- and valley-selective propagation of exciton-polaritons in a monolayer of MoSe2 that is strongly coupled to a microcavity photon mode. In a wire-like device we trace the flow and helicity of exciton-polaritons expanding along its channel. By exciting a coherent superposition of K and K′ tagged polaritons, we observe valley-selective expansion of the polariton cloud without either an external magnetic field or coherent Rayleigh scattering. The observed optical valley Hall effect occurs on a macroscopic scale, offering the potential for applications in spin-valley-locked photonic devices.

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Lundt, Nils
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Dusanowski, Łukasz
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Lundt, Nils, Dusanowski, Łukasz, Sedov, Evgeny, Stepanov, Petr, Glazov, Mikhail M., Klembt, Sebastian, Klaas, Martin, Beierlein, Johannes, Qin, Ying, Tongay, Sefaattin, Richard, Maxime, Kavokin, Alexey V., Höfling, Sven and Schneider, Christian (2019) Optical valley Hall effect for highly valley-coherent exciton-polaritons in an atomically thin semiconductor. Nature Nanotechnology, 14 (8), 770-775. (doi:10.1038/s41565-019-0492-0).

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Abstract

Spin–orbit coupling is a fundamental mechanism that connects the spin of a charge carrier with its momentum. In the optical domain, an analogous synthetic spin–orbit coupling is accessible by engineering optical anisotropies in photonic materials. Both yield the possibility of creating devices that directly harness spin and polarization as information carriers. Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides promise intrinsic spin-valley Hall features for free carriers, excitons and photons. Here we demonstrate spin- and valley-selective propagation of exciton-polaritons in a monolayer of MoSe2 that is strongly coupled to a microcavity photon mode. In a wire-like device we trace the flow and helicity of exciton-polaritons expanding along its channel. By exciting a coherent superposition of K and K′ tagged polaritons, we observe valley-selective expansion of the polariton cloud without either an external magnetic field or coherent Rayleigh scattering. The observed optical valley Hall effect occurs on a macroscopic scale, offering the potential for applications in spin-valley-locked photonic devices.

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Accepted/In Press date: 3 June 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 July 2019
Published date: 1 August 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 435704
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/435704
ISSN: 1748-3387
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Author: Nils Lundt
Author: Łukasz Dusanowski
Author: Evgeny Sedov
Author: Petr Stepanov
Author: Mikhail M. Glazov
Author: Sebastian Klembt
Author: Martin Klaas
Author: Johannes Beierlein
Author: Ying Qin
Author: Sefaattin Tongay
Author: Maxime Richard
Author: Sven Höfling
Author: Christian Schneider

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