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A. M. Shentsev

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arXiv2026

Bistability of electron temperature in atomically thin semiconductors in the presence of exciton photogeneration

We study the dynamic equilibrium between trions and excitons in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides in the presence of resident charge carriers and continuous photogeneration of excitons. We show that heating of the system via Drude absorption of low-frequency radiation leads to bistability of the steady-state equilibrium. The first is a low-temperature state, in which almost all resident charge carriers are bound into trions. The second state occurs at high temperatures, where most trions are dissociated; in this regime, the heating is more efficient due to the higher Drude conductivity of unbound charge carriers compared to trions. Switching between these two states occurs on a timescale of tens to hundreds of picoseconds and is accompanied by a jump in various observables such as temperature, current, and the intensity of exciton or trion luminescence.

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arXiv2025

Terahertz radiation induced attractive-repulsive Fermi polaron conversion in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

We present a theoretical study of terahertz radiation-induced transitions between attractive and repulsive Fermi polaron states in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides. Going beyond the simple few-particle trion picture, we develop a many-body description that explicitly accounts for correlations with the Fermi sea of resident charge carriers. We calculate the rate of the direct optical conversion process which has a threshold where the terahertz photon energy equals to the Fermi polaron binding energy. This process features a characteristic frequency dependence near the threshold, due to final-state electron-exciton scattering related to the trion correlation with the Fermi sea hole. Furthermore, we demonstrate that intense terahertz pulses can significantly heat the electron gas via Drude absorption enabling an additional, indirect conversion mechanism through collisions between hot electrons and polarons, which exhibits a strong exponential dependence on the electron temperature. Our results reveal the important role of many-body correlations and thermal effects in the terahertz-driven dynamics of excitonic complexes in two-dimensional semiconductors.

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arXiv2024

Electromagnetic field assisted exciton diffusion in moiré superlattices

We study exciton energy spectrum and their propagation in moiré superlattices formed in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. In such structures, as a result of weak interlayer interaction, an effective, moiré, potential acting on excitons arises. Usually, excitons are considered to be localized in such potential. Here we demonstrate that the coupling of optically active excitons with induced electromagnetic field produces linear in the wavevector energy dispersion even if the quantum mechanical tunneling between the localization sites is suppressed. The effect can be described as a result of the processes of virtual generation-recombination of excitons at the localization sites that results in the $ r^{-3}$ dependence of the transfer matrix element on the intersite distance $r$. Based on the calculated energy spectrum we study exciton propagation in moiré superlattices with allowance for the light-exciton interaction. We consider semiclassical diffusion of excitons and take into account exciton-phonon and exciton-static defect scattering. For these mechanisms the diffusion coefficient decreases with increase of the temperature. We also analyze the hopping propagation regime and demonstrate that the temperature dependence of the exciton diffusion coefficient is described by the power-law rather than by an exponential function of the temperature.

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