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Excitonic thermalization bottleneck in twisted TMD heterostructures

Published 5 Feb 2024 in cond-mat.mes-hall and cond-mat.mtrl-sci | (2402.03007v1)

Abstract: Twisted van der Waals heterostructures show an intriguing interface exciton physics including hybridization effects and emergence of moir\'e potentials. Recent experiments have revealed that moir\'e-trapped excitons exhibit a remarkable dynamics, where excited states show lifetimes that are several orders of magnitude longer than those in monolayers. The origin of this behaviour is still under debate. Based on a microscopic many-particle approach, we investigate the phonon-driven relaxation cascade of non-equilibrium moir\'e excitons in the exemplary MoSe$_2$-WSe$_2$ heterostructure. We track the exciton relaxation pathway across different moir\'e mini-bands and identify the phonon-scattering channels assisting the spatial redistribution of excitons into low-energy pockets of the moir\'e potential. We unravel a phonon bottleneck in the flat band structure at low twist angles preventing excitons to fully thermalize into the lowest state explaining the measured enhanced emission intensity of excited moir\'e excitons. Overall, our work provides important insights into exciton relaxation dynamics in flatband exciton materials.

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