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Spatiotemporal dynamics of moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11812v1
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:48:43 GMT
Title: Spatiotemporal dynamics of moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
Authors: Giuseppe Meneghini, Samuel Brem, Ermin Malic,
Abstract summary: Heterostructures of transition metal dichalgenides (TMDs) offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics.<n>TMDs offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics due to their strong light-matter interaction and the formation of dipolar interlayer excitons.<n>Recent advances have enabled direct observation and control of interlayer excitons in such moir'e-patterned systems.
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Abstract: Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics due to their strong light-matter interaction and the formation of dipolar interlayer excitons. Introducing a twist angle or lattice mismatch between layers creates a periodic moir\'e potential that significantly reshapes the energy landscape and introduces a high-dimensional complexity absent in aligned bilayers. Recent experimental advances have enabled direct observation and control of interlayer excitons in such moir\'e-patterned systems, yet a microscopic theoretical framework capturing both their thermalization and spatiotemporal dynamics remains lacking. Here, we address this challenge by developing a predictive, material-specific many-body model that tracks exciton dynamics across time, space, and momentum, fully accounting for the moir\'e potential and the complex non-parabolic exciton band structure. Surprisingly, we reveal that flat bands, which typically trap excitons, can significantly enhance exciton propagation. This counterintuitive behavior emerges from the interplay between the flat-band structure giving rise to a bottleneck effect for exciton relaxation and thermal occupation dynamics creating hot excitons. Our work not only reveals the microscopic mechanisms behind the enhanced propagation but also enables the control of exciton transport via twist-angle engineering. These insights lay the foundation for next-generation moir\'e-based optoelectronic and quantum technologies.

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