Superradiance of Strongly Interacting Dipolar Excitons in Moir\'e Quantum Materials

TL;DR

This paper investigates how strong dipolar interactions in moiré excitons within 2D heterostructures influence superradiance, revealing controllable cooperative optical phenomena with potential quantum optics applications.

Contribution

It demonstrates the impact of dipole-dipole interactions on superradiance in moiré excitons and shows how doping can control optical cooperativity in these systems.

Findings

Strong dipolar interactions suppress superradiance in disordered states.

Ordered phases of moiré excitons exhibit enhanced superradiance.

Doping enables control over excitonic superradiant dynamics.

Abstract

Moir\'e lattices created in two-dimensional heterostructures exhibit rich many-body physics of interacting electrons and excitons and, at the same time, suggest promising optoelectronic applications. Here, we study the cooperative radiance of moir\'e excitons that is demonstrated to emerge from the deep subwavelength nature of the moir\'e lattice and the strong excitonic on-site interaction. In particular, we show that the static dipole-dipole interaction between interlayer excitons can strongly affect their cooperative optical properties, suppressing superradiance of disordered states while enhancing superradiance of ordered phases of moir\'e excitons. Moreover, we show that doping permits direct control of optical cooperativity, e.g., by generating supperradiant dynamics of otherwise subradiant states of excitons. Our results show that interlayer moir\'e excitons offer a unique platform for exploring cooperative optical phenomena in strongly interacting many-body systems, thus, holding promise for applications in quantum nonlinear optics.