Twisted-light-induced exciton wave packets in transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers

preprint2022arXivOpen access

Abstract

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of the photo-generated excitons in transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers (TMD-ML's) by Laguerre-Gaussian beams, a celebrated kind of twisted lights (TL's) carrying quantized orbital angular momenta (OAM). We show that the photo-excitation of TL incident to a TMD-ML leads to the formation of spatially localized exciton wave packets, constituted by the superposition of finite-momentum exciton states determined by the intriguing interplay between the multiple degrees of freedom of the optical and excitonic subsystems. Consequently, the TL-induced exciton wave packets yield profound directional photo-luminescences whose polar-angle-dependences are encoded by the transferred optical OAM and azimuthal angle part, despite OAM-irrelevant, optically resolves the exchange-split longitudinal and transverse exciton bands. Interestingly, the application of linearly polarized TL onto a valley-excitonic system mimics an exciton multiplexer allowing for selectively detecting the individual valley-mixed exciton bands, which are normally hardly measured spectrally.

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