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Valley polaritons

Spin–valley coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides has been shown to persist at room temperature when excitons are coherently coupled to cavity photons.

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Figure 1: Spin–valley locking in TMDs.

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Grosso, G. Valley polaritons. Nature Photon 11, 455–456 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.135

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