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TT 111: Frontiers of Electronic-Structure Theory: Correlated Electron Materials VIII (joint session O/TT/MM/DS/CPP)

TT 111.5: Talk

Friday, March 16, 2018, 11:30–11:45, HL 001

Interlayer trions in the MoS₂/WS₂ van der Waals heterostructure — •Thorsten Deilmann and Kristian Sommer Thygesen — CAMD, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Electronic excitations in van der Waals heterostructures can have interlayer or intralayer character depending on the spatial localisation of the involved charges (electrons and holes). In the case of neutral electron-hole pairs (excitons), both types of excitations have been explored theoretically and experimentally. In contrast, studies of charged trions have so far been limited to the intralayer type.

Here we investigate the complete set of interlayer excitations in a MoS₂/WS₂ heterostructure using a novel ab-initio method, which allows for a consistent treatment of both excitons and trions at the same theoretical footing. Our calculations predict the existence of bound interlayer trions below the neutral interlayer excitons. We obtain binding energies of 18/28 meV for the positive/negative interlayer trions with both electrons/holes located on the same layer. In contrast, a negligible binding energy is found for trions which have the two equally charged particles on different layers.