Dear Colleagues and Students,
You are cordially invited to UNAM Nanocolloquium seminars focusing on advancements in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The seminars bring us the most recent developments in these exciting fields. This week’s talk will be presented by Prof. Brian D. Gerardot.
“Quantum dots in two-dimensional heterostructures”
Date: November 1, 2019 (Friday)
Refreshments: 15:40
Time: 16:00
Place: UNAM Conference Hall
ABSTRACT:
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, in which a wide range of unique atomic layers can easily be combined, offer novel prospects to engineer and manipulate quantum confined states. Here I will present two approaches to this exciting prospect. I will first present Coulomb blockade in a vdW quantum dot device with tunnel coupling to a tunable Fermionic reservoir. Hybrid excitons, composed of localized quantum dot states (in WSe2) and Fermi reservoir continuum states (in graphene), are observed due to ultra-strong spin-conserving tunnel coupling resulting from an atomically thin tunnel barrier (hBN). Secondly, I will present spin-layer locking of interlayer valley excitons (IX) trapped in moiré potentials. In a heterostructure of bilayer 2H-MoSe2 and monolayer WSe2, we observe two IX species trapped in moiré potentials with distinct spin-layer-valley configurations. Due to the phenomenon of locked electron spin and layer pseudospin in bilayer 2H-MoSe2, the IX species exhibit opposite valley magnetic moments. Further, we find the 2H-MoSe2 stacking intrinsically locks the atomic registries of IXH and IXR together. Finally, we will discuss photon antibunching of moiré trapped excitons to unambiguously prove their quantum nature.
About the Speaker:
Professor Gerardot leads the Quantum Photonics Lab at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland (more information: http://qpl.eps.hw.ac.uk/). His research, at the interface of quantum optics, condensed-matter physics, and materials science, aims to engineer and controllably manipulate quantum states in semiconductor devices, with a particular recent interest in exploring novel van der Waals heterostructure quantum devices.
* Heriot-Watt University