Interlayer Exciton Valleytronics in Bilayer Heterostructures Interfaced with a Metasurface

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how interlayer excitons in TMDC bilayer heterostructures can spontaneously generate valley coherence using anisotropic electromagnetic vacuum, enabling access to a larger phase space for valleytronics applications.

Contribution

It introduces a new regime of valley coherence in bilayer heterostructures, expanding beyond monolayer capabilities by leveraging anisotropic vacuum effects.

Findings

Larger Bloch sphere regions are accessible in heterostructures.

Spontaneous valley coherence is achievable in interlayer excitons.

Potential for engineering quantum emitter arrays in Moiré heterostructures.

Abstract

The recent proposal of using an anisotropic vacuum for generating valley coherence in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers has expanded the potential of such valley degrees of freedom for applications in valleytronics. In this work, we open up a completely new regime, inaccessible with monolayer TMDCs, of spontaneously generated valley coherence in interlayer excitons in commensurate TMDC bilayer heterostructures. Using the peculiar out of plane polarization of interlayer excitons in conjunction with an in-plane anisotropic electromagnetic vacuum, we show that a much larger region of the Bloch sphere can be accessible in these heterostructures. We show the accessible phases of these excitons given this in-plane anisotropic electromagnetic vacuum. Our analysis of spontaneous coherence for interlayer excitons may pave the way for engineering an array of interacting quantum emitters in Moir\'e heterostructures.