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Valleytronics

Stark control

By exploiting the optical Stark effect, the valley degree of freedom in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides can be selectively manipulated and detected using all-optical methods.

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Figure 1: All-optical manipulation of valley pseudospin.

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Li, X., Moody, G. Stark control. Nature Phys 13, 9–10 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3936

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