Wagner, Julian ORCID: 0000-0001-8325-9373 (2024). Optical spectroscopy on spin-orbit coupled materials - dynamics of the proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid α-RuCl3 and exciton dynamics in a MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructure. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
This thesis addresses the photo-induced non-equilibrium dynamics in spin-orbit coupled ‘quantum materials’, namely the proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidate material α-RuCl3 and a vertical MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructure composed of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Various optical spectroscopy techniques are used to not only properly detect the appropriate physical properties of these materials, but also to transiently controll and manipulate the materials through selective electronic or excitonic excitations. The first part of this thesis deals with magnetic linear dichroism and magnetic linear birefringence measurements to all-optically map the zigzag antiferromagnetic phase of α-RuCl3 at low temperatures and in-plane magnetic fields. Further, time-resolved magnetic linear dichroism measurements reveal the dynamical nonequilibrium properties of this spin-orbit coupled material. The results show that optical excitation of holon-doublon pairs can be used to drive α-RuCl3 into a non-equilibrium proximate quantum spin liquid state, and to suppress the antiferromagnetic order. The second part of this thesis addresses the spin-valley dependent exciton properties and dynamics of a vertical MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructure with a type II band alignment. Broadband helicity-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy is employed to unveil the spin-valley dependent ultrafast interlayer charge transfer dynamics. The experimental findings reveal details of interlayer charge transfer on ultrafast timescales, showing that the spin-valley polarized state of photoexcited carriers is conserved during the charge transfer between the layers and the subsequent formation of interlayer excitons. Further, the experimental findings demonstrate the possibility that interlayer excitons with a usually very weak oscillator strength and their spin-valley polarization can be indirectly probed in the optical response of intralayer excitons.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-743840 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute of Physics II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Natural sciences and mathematics Physics |
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Date of oral exam: | 19 September 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/74384 |
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