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CAMP: Quantum phenomena in the Landau levels of atomically-thin transition metal dicalcogenides
Add to Calendar 2023-03-20T19:45:00 2023-03-20T20:45:00 UTC CAMP: Quantum phenomena in the Landau levels of atomically-thin transition metal dicalcogenides Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/96178311702?pwd=bWNHRXE5QUdkbTVEY1F3dFlhR3JvZz09
Start DateMon, Mar 20, 2023
3:45 PM
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End DateMon, Mar 20, 2023
4:45 PM
Presented By
Qianhui Shi, UCLA
Event Series: CAMP Seminar

Landau levels offer a neat model system to study emergent quantum phases, owing to the dominating Coulomb interactions and tunable orbital wavefunctions. In atomically-thin transition metal dicalcogenide, the well-resolved and -controlled spin, valley and layer degree of freedom further enriches the physics that can be explored. In this talk, I’ll discuss a few examples in WSe2: first, a bilayer WSe2 allows selective carrier population of the individual layers; when the filling factor of the two layers is an integer number, it manifests as a natural platform for interlayer exciton condensate. Second, a large imbalance in the population of two (pseudo)spins gives rise to spin-dependent transport in partially filled Landau levels - the spin-minority carriers are much less mobile than the spin-majority carriers. We explain such behavior using a polaron picture.