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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 477-U138Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3324
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1106172, DMR-1122594]
- Keck Foundation
- Honda Research Institute
- AMOS program, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division, Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-76-SFO0515]
- US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1106172] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) crystals exhibit new emergent properties at monolayer thickness(1,2), notably strong many-body effects mediated by Coulomb interactions(3-6). A manifestation of these many-body interactions is the formation of excitons, bound electron-hole pairs, but higher-order excitonic states are also possible. Here we demonstrate the existence of four-body, biexciton states in monolayer WSe2. The biexciton is identified as a sharply defined state in photoluminescence at high exciton density. Its binding energy of 52 meV is more than an order of magnitude greater than that found in conventional quantum-well structures(7). A variational calculation of the biexciton state reveals that the high binding energy arises not only from strong carrier confinement, but also from reduced and non-local dielectric screening. These results open the way for the creation of new correlated excitonic states linking the degenerate valleys in TMDC crystals, as well as more complex many-body states such as exciton condensates or the recently reported dropletons(8).
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