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Spin, Charge, and ?-Spin Separation in One-Dimensional Photodoped Mott Insulators

We show that effectively cold metastable states in one-dimensional photodoped Mott insulators described by the extended Hubbard model exhibit spin, charge, and q-spin separation. Their wave functions in the large on-site Coulomb interaction limit can be ex ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Active Ferromagnetic Metasurface with Topologically Protected Spin Texture for Spectral Filters

Haiming Yu, Dirk Grundler, Jilei Chen

Electromagnetic metasurfaces modulate a material's response to electromagnetic waves by specifically arranged elements with dimensions below the wavelength. They have opened new fields of research, including flat optics and nanophotonics on a chip. Ferroma ...

2022

Optoelectronics based on the spin-valley physics of 2D materials

Juan Francisco Gonzalez Marin

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are atomically thin crystals with exceptional mechanical, electrical and optical properties. Their unique characteristics originating from quantum confinement in the vertical dimension have attracted a strong interest for sci ...

EPFL2022

Berry curvature-induced local spin polarisation in gated graphene/WTe2 heterostructures

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Lukas Powalla

Experimental control of local spin-charge interconversion is of primary interest for spintronics. Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures combining graphene with a strongly spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional (2D) material enable such functionality by design. ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Low-Loss Anisotropic Image Polaritons in van der Waals Crystal alpha-MoO3

Sergejs Boroviks

Orthorhombic molybdenum trioxide (alpha-MoO3), a newly discovered polaritonic van der Waals crystal, is attracting significant attention due to its strongly anisotropic mid-infrared phonon-polaritons. At the same time, coupling of polariton with its mirror ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Interaction of Confined Polaritons in Microcavity Structures

Morteza Navadeh Toupchi

A polariton is a quasiparticle formed from the coupling of a confined photon in a cavity to electronic excitation, like exciton in a semiconductor. This dissertation reports on series of experiments in confined polariton interaction by design, fabrication, ...

EPFL2021

Weyl fermions, Fermi arcs, and minority-spin carriers in ferromagnetic CoS2

Samuel Thomas Stolz, Thorsten Schmitt, Timur Kim, Vladimir N. Strocov

Magnetic Weyl semimetals are a newly discovered class of topological materials that may serve as a platform for exotic phenomena, such as axion insulators or the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here, we use angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and ab i ...

2020

Crystalline and correlated phases in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Diego José Pasquier

This thesis is dedicated to the study of various aspects of the electronic structure of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) of chemical composition MX

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(where M is a transition metal atom and X= S, Se, Te), using a combination of \te ...

EPFL2019

Light-Matter Interaction in III-Nitride Waveguides: Propagating Polaritons and Optical Gain

Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers

III-nitride waveguides featuring AlInN claddings and GaN/AlGaN quantum wells (QWs) offer promising perspectives for applications in many fields of short-wavelength photonics. Thanks to their nearly lattice-matched nature, these structures exhibit an excell ...

EPFL2018

Charge transport properties of spin-orbit coupled materials in different correlation regimes

Soudabeh Sheikholharam Mashhadi

From recent advances in solid state physics, a novel material classification scheme has evolved which is based on the concept of topology and provides an understanding of different phenomena ranging from quantum transport to unusual flavors of superconduct ...

EPFL2018

Phonon-Driven Selective Modulation of Exciton Oscillator Strengths in Anatase TiO2Nanoparticles

Majed Chergui, Gerald Auböck, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Tania Palmieri, Edoardo Baldini, Enrico Pomarico, Malte Oppermann

The way nuclear motion affects electronic responses has become a very hot topic in materials science. Coherent acoustic phonons can dynamically modify optical, magnetic, and mechanical properties at ultrasonic frequencies, with promising applications as se ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

Spin transport in topological insulator-based nanostructures

Kristina Vaklinova

With the advent of spintronics, significant research effort is made to realize efficient injection, transport, manipulation, and detection of spin. The material platforms and device architectures suitable for this purpose 3D topological insulators (TIs) ar ...

EPFL2017

On the physics of multimode polaritons

Claudéric Ouellet-Plamondon

This thesis is devoted to the study of microcavity polariton systems, in which the strong coupling occurs between more than one exciton or photon modes i.e. multimode polaritons. The first part of this work states the theoretical background of light-matter ...

EPFL2017

Spin Polarization and Attosecond Time Delay in Photoemission from Spin Degenerate States of Solids

Stefan Peter Muff, Jan Hugo Dil, Mauro Fanciulli

After photon absorption, electrons from a dispersive band of a solid require a finite time in the photoemission process before being photoemitted as free particles, in line with recent attosecond-resolved photoemission experiments. According to the Eisenbu ...

American Physical Society2017

Spin and Charge transport in Dirac Materials

Alexander Ronald Hoyer

The digitalization of our world is proceeding with every new technical product placed on the market. By making them smarter, e.g. linking them together and equipping them with sensors, a vast mass of data is collected. Processing and storing this informati ...

EPFL2016

Highly Spin-Polarized Carrier Dynamics and Ultra large Photoinduced Magnetization in CH(3)NH(3)Pbl(3) Perovskite Thin Films

Michael Graetzel, Nripan Mathews

Low-temperature solution-processed organic-inorganic halide perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 has demonstrated great potential for photovoltaics and light-emitting devices. Recent discoveries of long ambipolar carrier diffusion lengths and the prediction of the Rashba ...

American Chemical Society2015

Spin processes and charge dynamics in organic light emitting diodes

Francesco Comandè

In this thesis work we explore spin dependent processes and charge dynamics in α-NPD/Alq₃ based LEDs. Studies on polymer light emitting diodes based on PFO, which are fabricated by us, are also reported. Our objective is to shed light on the fundamental me ...

EPFL2014

Impact of saturation on the polariton renormalization in III-nitride based planar microcavities

Jean-François Carlin, Jacques Levrat, Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Eric Feltin, Georg Rossbach

It has been widely observed that an increasing carrier density in a strongly coupled semiconductor microcavity (MC) alters the dispersion of cavity polaritons, below and above the condensation threshold. The interacting nature of cavity polaritons stems fr ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Influence of a nonradiative reservoir on polariton spin multistability

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Marcia Portella Oberli, Roland Cerna

In this work, we study the influence of the excitation conditions on power-dependent spin switching and spin multistability of exciton polaritons in planar semiconductor microcavities. We obtain experimental evidence for the influence of a reservoir of non ...

American Physical Society2013

Ultrafast tristable spin memory of a coherent polariton gas

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Marcia Portella Oberli, Roland Cerna

Non-linear interactions in coherent gases are not only at the origin of bright and dark solitons and superfluids; they also give rise to phenomena such as multistability, which hold great promise for the development of advanced photonic and spintronic devi ...

Nature Publishing Group2013