Fermi polaron-polaritons in charge-tunable atomically thin semiconductors

By Meinrad Sidler, Patrick Back, Ovidiu Cotleţ, A. Srivastava, T. Fink, M. Kroner, E. Demler, A. Imamoğlu. Nature Physics, 2016

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Cavity spectroscopy measurements elucidate the Fermi polaron nature of the optical excitations in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. The dynamics of a mobile quantum impurity in a degenerate Fermi system is a fundamental problem in many-body physics. The interest in this field has been renewed due to recent ground-breaking experiments with ultracold Fermi gases1,2,3,4,5. Optical creation of an exciton or a polariton in a two-dimensional electron system embedded in a microcavity constitutes a new frontier for this field due to an interplay between cavity coupling favouring ultralow-mass polariton formation6 and exciton–electron interactions leading to polaron or trion formation7,8. Here, we present cavity spectroscopy of gate-tunable monolayer MoSe2 (ref. 9) exhibiting strongly bound trion and polaron resonances, as well as non-perturbative coupling to a single microcavity mode10,11. As the electron density is increased, the oscillator strength determined from the polariton splitting is gradually transferred from the higher-energy repulsive exciton-polaron resonance to the lower-energy attractive exciton-polaron state. Simultaneous observation of polariton formation in both attractive and repulsive branches indicates a new regime of polaron physics where the polariton impurity mass can be much smaller than that of the electrons. Our findings shed new light on optical response of semiconductors in the presence of free carriers by identifying the Fermi polaron nature of excitonic resonances and constitute a first step in investigation of a new class of degenerate Bose–Fermi mixtures12,13.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry

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