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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Photonics Année : 2022

Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling

C. Leblanc
J. Puebla
L. Klompmaker
G. Malpuech

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Strong coupling between light and the fundamental excitations of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is of foundational importance both to pure physics and to the understanding and development of future photonic nanotechnologies1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Here we study the relationship between spin polarization of a 2DEG in a monolayer semiconductor, MoSe2, and light–matter interactions modified by a zero-dimensional optical microcavity. We find pronounced spin-susceptibility of the 2DEG to simultaneously enhance and suppress trion-polariton formation in opposite photon helicities. This leads to observation of a giant effective valley Zeeman splitting for trion-polaritons (g-factor of >20), exceeding the purely trionic splitting by over five times. Going further, we observe clear effective optical nonlinearity arising from the highly nonlinear behaviour of the valley-specific strong light–matter coupling regime, and allowing all-optical tuning of the polaritonic Zeeman splitting from 4 meV to >10 meV. Our experiments lay the groundwork for engineering topological phases with true unidirectionality in monolayer semiconductors, accompanied by giant effective photonic nonlinearities rooted in many-body exciton–electron correlations.
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hal-03765385 , version 1 (31-08-2022)

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T. Lyons, D. Gillard, C. Leblanc, J. Puebla, D. Solnyshkov, et al.. Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling. Nature Photonics, 2022, 16 (9), pp.632-636. ⟨10.1038/s41566-022-01025-8⟩. ⟨hal-03765385⟩
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