Lyons, T.P., Gillard, D.J. orcid.org/0000-0002-0001-4918, Leblanc, C. et al. (11 more authors) (2022) Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling. Nature Photonics, 16 (9). pp. 632-636. ISSN 1749-4885
Abstract
Strong coupling between light and the fundamental excitations of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is of foundational importance both to pure physics and to the understanding and development of future photonic nanotechnologies1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Here we study the relationship between spin polarization of a 2DEG in a monolayer semiconductor, MoSe2, and light–matter interactions modified by a zero-dimensional optical microcavity. We find pronounced spin-susceptibility of the 2DEG to simultaneously enhance and suppress trion-polariton formation in opposite photon helicities. This leads to observation of a giant effective valley Zeeman splitting for trion-polaritons (g-factor of >20), exceeding the purely trionic splitting by over five times. Going further, we observe clear effective optical nonlinearity arising from the highly nonlinear behaviour of the valley-specific strong light–matter coupling regime, and allowing all-optical tuning of the polaritonic Zeeman splitting from 4 meV to >10 meV. Our experiments lay the groundwork for engineering topological phases with true unidirectionality in monolayer semiconductors, accompanied by giant effective photonic nonlinearities rooted in many-body exciton–electron correlations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Nature Photonics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL EP/P026850/1 ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL EP/S030751/1 EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 881603 ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL EP/V026496/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2022 15:54 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41566-022-01025-8 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:191773 |