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Strongly Interaction-Enhanced Valley Magnetic Response in Monolayer WSe2

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

Z. Wang
K.F. Mak
J. Shan

Abstract

We measure the doping dependence of the valley Zeeman splitting of the fundamental optical transitions in monolayer WSe2 under an out-of-plane magnetic field by optical reflection contrast and photoluminescence spectroscopy. A nonlinear valley Zeeman effect, correlated with an over fourfold enhancement in the g factor, is observed. The effect occurs when the Fermi level crosses the spin-split upper conduction band, corresponding to a change of the spin-valley degeneracy from two to four. The enhancement increases and shows no sign of saturation as the sample temperature decreases. Our result demonstrates the importance of the Coulomb interactions in the valley magnetic response of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors. © 2018 American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Volume

120

Issue

6

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85041807646&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevLett.120.066402&partnerID=40&md5=816f5821fa21266bb0cab04f93941bbf

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.066402

Group (Lab)

Jie Shan Group
Kin Fai Mak Group

Funding Source

10.13039/100000001
DMR-1420451
DMR-1420451
DESC0012635
DESC0013883

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