Optical Investigation of Monolayer and Bulk Tungsten Diselenide (WSe2) in High Magnetic Fields

Anatolie Mitioglu , Paulina Plochocka (1) , A. Granados del Aguila , Peter C.M. Christianen (2) , Georgios Deligeorgis (3) , Sergiu Anghel , L. Kulyuk (4) , Duncan Kennedy Maude (1)

1 LNCMI-T - Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse
2 Institute for Molecules and Materials
3 LAAS - Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes
4 Institute of Applied Physics [Chisinau]

Optical spectroscopy in high magnetic fields B ≤ 65 T is used to reveal the very different nature of carriers in monolayer and bulk transition metal dichalcogenides. In monolayer WSe2, the exciton emission shifts linearly with the magnetic field and exhibits a splitting that originates from the magnetic field induced valley splitting. The monolayer data can be described using a single particle picture with a Dirac-like Hamiltonian for massive Dirac Fermions, with an additional term to phenomenologically include the valley splitting. In contrast, in bulk WSe2 where the inversion symmetry is restored, transmission measurements show a distinctly excitonic behavior with absorption to the 1s and 2s states. Magnetic field induces a spin splitting together with a small diamagnetic shift and cyclotron like behavior at high fields, which is best described within the hydrogen model.

Mots clés: Transition metal dichalcogenides; WSe2; monolayer; bulk; massive Dirac Fermions; Fermi velocity; valley splitting

Domaines: Supraconductivité [cond-mat.supr-con]

Anatolie Mitioglu, Paulina Plochocka, A. Granados del Aguila, Peter C.M. Christianen, Georgios Deligeorgis, et al.. Optical Investigation of Monolayer and Bulk Tungsten Diselenide (WSe2) in High Magnetic Fields. Nano Letters, 2015, ⟨10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00626⟩. ⟨hal-01707219⟩