Tunable transient valley-pseudospin orders in a moiré Bose-Hubbard model

January 1, 2024·
Richen Xiong
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We demonstrate exciton-filling and magnetic field tunable exciton valley-pseudospin orders in a doped correlated insulator of excitons. We find evidence of an in-plane order of exciton ‘spin’ – here, valley pseudospin – around exciton filling vex = 1, which strongly suppresses the out-of-plane ‘spin’ polarization. Upon increasing vex or applying a small magnetic field of ~10 mT, it transitions into an out-of-plane ferromagnetic spin order that spontaneously enhances the ‘spin’ polarization, i.e., the circular helicity of emission light is higher than the excitation. The phase diagram is qualitatively captured by a spin-1/2 Bose–Hubbard model.

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HQI Postdoctoral Fellow
I am an experimental physicist and HQI Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University studying how light–matter interactions uncover new physics in quantum materials. My work spans microwave to ultrafast optical spectroscopy to track dynamical many-body states, with a focus on harnessing native entanglement and coherence in correlated materials to expand the frontiers of quantum sensing and quantum information science.