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Quenching of Intervalley Exchange Coupling in the Presence of Momentum-Dark States in TMDCs

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Pith's one-line read Momentum-dark exciton states below the bright K/K' valley in WSe2 quench intervalley exchange coupling, extending valley lifetimes to nanoseconds, whereas MoSe2 lifetimes stay in the hundreds of femtoseconds.

desk verdict A credible, transparent microscopic calculation showing that momentum-dark states can quench intervalley exchange coupling in W-based TMDCs, but the predicted Mo/W lifetime contrast hinges on a debated band-structure input and deserves robustness checking. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.11178 v1 pith:ENCIYK4O submitted 2019-08-29 cond-mat.mes-hall

Malte Selig , Florian Katsch , Samuel Brem , Garnik F. Mkrtchian , Ermin Malic , Andreas Knorr This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides host two optically addressable exciton valleys at $K$ and $K'$, and the valley lifetime determines whether these materials can store information in the exciton valley polarization. This paper tries to establish that the valley lifetime is governed by the energetic position of momentum-dark exciton states relative to the optically bright state. Using a microscopic Heisenberg equation-of-motion theory, it finds that in MoSe$_2$, where the bright state is lowest, intervalley exchange coupling rapidly equalizes the two valleys within a few hundred femtoseconds. In WSe$_2$, where $(K,\Lambda)$ and $(K,K')$ dark states lie tens of meV below the bright state, excitons thermalize into these dark states within a few hundred femtoseconds, and because those states are immune to the intervalley exchange coupling, the valley lifetime stretches to nanoseconds at low temperature. The result identifies the dark-bright ordering as the deciding factor for valleytronic performance.

What carries the argument

The central object is the intervalley exchange coupling matrix element $X^{\xi\bar\xi}_Q$, which couples the bright $(K\uparrow,K\uparrow)$ and $(K'\downarrow,K'\downarrow)$ exciton densities through an intervalley coherence $C^{\xi\bar\xi}_Q$. The coupling grows linearly with the center-of-mass momentum $|Q|$ and requires simultaneous energy and momentum conservation, so only excitons in the optically bright $K$ and $K'$ states participate. The supporting machinery is a Heisenberg equation-of-motion hierarchy truncated at second order in the optical field, producing coupled equations for the excitonic coherence, the incoherent exciton densities (including Boltzmann-like exciton-phonon scattering into momentum-dark states), and the intervalley coherence. The momentum-dark states act as a fast reservoir: exciton-phonon scattering moves population into $(K,\Lambda)$ and $(K,K')$ states where the exchange term has no matrix element, starving the intervalley coupling of population.

What would settle it

Measure the helicity-resolved valley lifetime in a single WSe$_2$ monolayer while applying biaxial strain or changing the dielectric environment to shift the $(K,\Lambda)$ dark state relative to the bright $(K,K')$ state: the theory predicts a sharp crossover from nanosecond to sub-picosecond lifetimes as the dark state crosses above the bright state, so observing no such crossover would refute the quenching mechanism.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the intervalley exchange coupling (IEC), the dipole-dipole interaction that flips electron and hole spins simultaneously and transfers excitons between $K$ and $K'$, is strongly quenched whenever momentum-dark exciton states lie energetically below the bright state. The paper demonstrates this by computing the coupled dynamics of bright and dark exciton populations, phonon scattering, and the intervalley coherence in MoSe$_2$ and WSe$_2$. In MoSe$_2$ the bright $(K\uparrow,K\uparrow)$ and $(K'\downarrow,K'\downarrow)$ states are the lowest, so most excitons remain in coupled states and the valley polarization decays in 150--400 fs depending on temperature. In WSe$_2$ the $(K\uparrow,\Lambda\uparrow)$ and $(K\uparrow,K'\uparrow)$ states are tens of meV lower, so exciton-phonon scattering drains the bright states within roughly 100--300 fs; since IEC cannot act on these momentum-dark states, the remaining occupation difference between the two valleys persists on a nanosecond timescale at 77 K. The paper concludes that this mechanism explains the large difference in valley lifetimes and polarization degrees between Mo- and W-based TMDCs, while noting that other spin-flip mechanisms may become relevant on longer timescales.

Load-bearing premise

All conclusions depend on the energetic ordering of the momentum-dark exciton states: in WSe$_2$ the $(K,\Lambda)$ and $(K,K')$ dark states must sit tens of meV below the bright state, and in MoSe$_2$ above it; the authors note that the exact quantitative ordering is still under debate.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • In W-based monolayers such as WSe$_2$, exciton valley polarization can survive for nanoseconds at cryogenic temperatures, making them the practical choice for valleytronic memory and polarization-encoded photonics.
  • In Mo-based monolayers, the bright exciton is the ground state, so any optically created valley polarization is homogenized within a few hundred femtoseconds; these materials will not retain valley information without additional engineering.
  • The temperature dependence of the valley lifetime is opposite in the two families: MoSe$_2$ lifetimes grow with temperature (150 fs at 77 K to 400 fs at 300 K) as dark states become populated, while WSe$_2$ lifetimes shrink (1.6 ns to 8 ps) as thermal population returns to the bright state.
  • The degree of polarization of incoherent photoluminescence can be high (about 64% in WSe$_2$ at 77 K) even when the total valley lifetime is long, because emission samples only light-cone excitons that must first be repopulated by scattering.
  • When IEC is quenched, other intervalley spin relaxation channels such as single-carrier spin flips may become the dominant decay path on longer timescales, so measured lifetimes may fall below the pure-IEC values.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the dark-bright splitting can be tuned continuously by strain, dielectric screening, or stacking, the theory implies a sharp crossover in valley lifetime as the $(K,\Lambda)$ dark state crosses the bright state, effectively dialling valleytronic performance.
  • The same reservoir picture should extend to other W-based TMDCs and to heterobilayers whenever a momentum-dark exciton is the ground state, so the quenching mechanism is likely a general design rule rather than a WSe$_2$ special case.
  • Because the model defines valley lifetime from the total exciton density while photoluminescence reports only light-cone excitons, measurements that mix the two definitions may disagree; a careful experiment should specify which observable is being reported.
  • The debated quantitative ordering of the dark states could be pinned down experimentally from the phonon-assisted photoluminescence spectrum, whose bright-to-dark energy separation fixes the temperature at which the valley-lifetime crossover should occur.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper develops a microscopic Heisenberg-equation-of-motion theory for exciton dynamics in monolayer TMDCs, including intervalley Coulomb exchange coupling (IEC), exciton-phonon scattering, and radiative decay. The model is applied to MoSe2 and WSe2 on SiO2, where the energetic ordering of momentum-dark exciton states relative to the bright K/K' excitons differs. In MoSe2 the bright states are lowest and the calculated valley lifetime is a few hundred femtoseconds; in WSe2 the momentum-dark (K,Lambda) and (K,K') states lie tens of meV below the bright state, and the resulting thermalization into these IEC-inactive states is argued to quench the intervalley exchange coupling, producing valley lifetimes of about 1.6 ns at 77 K and 8 ps at room temperature. The degree of polarization of the incoherent emission is also computed and compared with experiments, using a 1 ns non-radiative recombination rate as an external parameter.

Significance. If the assumed dark-bright splitting in WSe2 is correct, the paper offers a simple and physically appealing explanation for the experimentally observed Mo/W dichotomy in valley dynamics and for the strong temperature dependence of the valley lifetime. The theoretical framework itself is a strength: the equations of motion are derived from a well-defined Hamiltonian, the Coulomb and phonon parameters are taken from DFT, and the authors explicitly compare their results with pump-probe, Kerr-rotation, and polarization experiments. The manuscript is also honest in flagging the uncertainty in the dark-state ordering and in acknowledging that other spin-relaxation mechanisms may dominate at long times. However, the central quantitative claim is contingent on a band-structure input that the authors themselves describe as under debate, and the polarization predictions depend on a fitted non-radiative decay rate. These issues need to be addressed before the paper can be accepted.

major comments (3)
  1. [Results, 'Intervalley coupling in WSe2' and Fig. 5(a)] The central prediction of a 1.6 ns valley lifetime in WSe2 at 77 K rests entirely on the assumed energetic ordering that places the momentum-dark (K,Lambda) and (K,K') excitons tens of meV below the bright state. The authors note in the same section that the exact quantitative position of these states is under debate (Ref. 52), and the quenching mechanism is threshold-like: at 77 K, a splitting of tens of meV suppresses the bright-state population by Boltzmann factors of order 10^-2 to 10^-4, but if the true splitting were only a few meV or positive, the predicted valley lifetime would collapse to the MoSe2 scale. Please provide a sensitivity analysis of the valley lifetime as a function of the dark-bright splitting (including negative splittings), and state explicitly the critical splitting at which the Mo/W dichotomy disappears. Without this, the headline lifetime contrast is not robust to the known uncertainty in the input.
  2. [Results, 'Degree of Polarization and Valley Lifetime' and Fig. 5(b)] The computed degree of polarization is controlled by the non-radiative recombination rate, which is set to 1 ns as an external parameter. While the text mentions that rates of 500 ps and 200 ps are shown in the supplementary material, the main-text Fig. 5(b) presents a single choice (1 ns) and the numbers (64% at 77 K, 1% at room temperature) are quantitatively compared with experiments. Because this fitted rate is not predicted by the model, the polarization result should be presented as an illustration under an assumed non-radiative lifetime, with a sensitivity curve shown in the main text or at least a clear label in the figure that the absolute values are parameter-dependent. As it stands, the comparison with experimental polarization values gives the impression of a prediction rather than a fit-dependent estimate.
  3. [Conclusion] The conclusion states that the intervalley exchange coupling is 'strongly quenched' in WSe2 because excitons thermalize into momentum-dark states. This is a population-redistribution effect: the microscopic coupling itself is not altered, but the occupancy of the coupled bright states is reduced. The authors should clarify in the conclusion that the quenching is a consequence of the assumed level ordering and of the exciton-phonon thermalization rates, and that the physical picture would change qualitatively if the ordering were reversed. This clarification is needed to prevent the result from being read as a parameter-free prediction.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Theoretical Approach] There is a typo in the sentence 'We restrixt the description' which should read 'We restrict the description'; also 'Troughout this paper' should be 'Throughout this paper'.
  2. [Results, 'Intervalley coupling in MoSe2'] The authors state that for MoSe2 the deviations from Ref. 52 are 'only on the order of few meV and smaller in comparison to the thermal energy of the excitons.' For consistency, the corresponding discussion for WSe2 should quantify the uncertainty in the dark-bright splitting (which is tens of meV) and explain why that uncertainty does not equally affect the qualitative conclusions.
  3. [Results, 'Degree of Polarization and Valley Lifetime'] In the text, the degree of polarization is written as 'nσ+−nσ− nσ++nσ−' without proper parentheses; please use (nσ+ - nσ-)/(nσ+ + nσ-) for clarity.
  4. [Fig. 3(c) discussion] There is a typo 'exictons' in the sentence 'The formation of the (K↑ K′ ↑) exictons occurs within 200 fs'; it should be 'excitons'.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the Mo/W valley-lifetime contrast follows from an explicitly stated external band-structure input, not from a fitted or self-referential reduction.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is that intervalley exchange coupling (IEC) is quenched when momentum-dark exciton states lie below the optically bright states, as in WSe2, whereas MoSe2, with dark states above the bright states, exhibits fast valley relaxation. This is a deductive consequence of the model Hamiltonian: the authors explicitly state that IEC requires energy and momentum conservation and therefore applies only to (K,K) and (K',K') excitons, while momentum-dark states are immune. The energetic ordering of the dark states is an external input taken from their prior DFT-based Wannier-equation calculations (Refs. 27, 36, 51), and the authors openly note that 'the exact quantitative position of these momentum-dark states is still under debate in the literature' (Ref. 52). This is a robustness/sensitivity limitation, not a circularity: the input does not definitionally contain the output, and the prediction would indeed change if the input ordering changed, which is precisely what makes it a genuine conditional prediction rather than a tautology. The non-radiative recombination rate of 1 ns used for the polarization calculation is chosen from an external experimental value (Ref. 26) and the authors explicitly discuss its influence on the degree of polarization; it is not fitted to the predicted valley lifetime, which is extracted independently from the density dynamics. The transient intervalley transfer and the order-of-magnitude polarization are checked against external experiments (Refs. 12, 14, 21, 53, 54), and the paper itself cautions that other spin-relaxation mechanisms become relevant on long timescales. No equation is shown to reduce to its own input, no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, and the self-citations point to externally falsifiable prior calculations rather than to an unverified uniqueness theorem. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained once the material-specific band-structure parameters are accepted as inputs; any concern about the uncertainty in those parameters belongs to correctness risk, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central predictions rest on DFT band-structure inputs, the 1s truncation, and a chosen non-radiative rate; no new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (1)
  • Non-radiative recombination rate = 1 ns (with 500 ps and 200 ps tested in supplementary)
    Chosen 'in agreement with the experimentally accessible rate' (Ref 26); used in computing the degree of polarization, and the polarization values depend strongly on this choice.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The 1s exciton state dominates the dynamics; higher excitonic states are ignored due to large energy separation.
    Stated in the theoretical approach section, justified by the large 1s-2s splitting (Refs 47-49).
  • domain assumption The Wannier equation with the DFT-derived dielectric function and band parameters accurately describes exciton dispersions and wavefunctions.
    The paper uses DFT parameters from Refs 41-43 and a dielectric model beyond the Rytova-Keldysh limit (Ref 38).
  • domain assumption The excitonic Hamiltonian with intervalley Coulomb exchange, exciton-phonon, and exciton-photon couplings is complete for the studied dynamics; higher-order many-body correlations are negligible under weak excitation.
    Hierarchy truncation at second order in the exciting field, following Refs 32, 33, and 50.
  • domain assumption Momentum-dark exciton states at K' and Lambda do not participate in intervalley exchange coupling due to energy and momentum conservation.
    Stated in the theoretical approach as a central property of the IEC mechanism.
  • domain assumption The energetic ordering of momentum-dark states below the bright state in WSe2 (and above in MoSe2) is as given by the authors' DFT-based calculations.
    The authors note that this ordering is still under debate (Ref 52), but the qualitative conclusions depend on it.

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abstract

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides are promising materials for valleytronic applications, since they possess two individually addressable excitonic transitions at the non-equivalent $K$ and $K'$ points with different spins, selectively excitable with light of opposite circular polarization. Here, it is of crucial importance to understand the elementary processes determining the lifetime of these optically injected valley excitons. In this study, we perform microscopic calculations based on a Heisenberg equation of motion formalism to investigate the efficiency of the intervalley coupling in the presence (W based TMDCs) and absence (Mo based TMDCs) of energetically low lying momentum-dark exciton states. While we predict a valley exciton lifetime on the order of some hundreds of fs in the absence of low lying momentum-dark states we demonstrate a strong quenching of the valley lifetime in the presence of such states.

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Figure 2. illustrates the intervalley dynamics in MoSe2 at an exemplary temperature of 77 K after optically exciting the (K ↑, K ↑) valley (A states) resonantly to the 1s transition with a left handed polarized σ + 20 fs gaussian light pulse, cf. figure 2 (a). The optically excited excitonic coherence decays due to radiative and exciton-phonon interaction within 300 fs being consistent with previous calculations27. Due to the… view at source ↗
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