Magnetic-Field-Induced Rotation of Polarized Light Emission from Monolayer WS_{2}

Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Aug 12;117(7):077402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.077402. Epub 2016 Aug 12.

Abstract

We control the linear polarization of emission from the coherently emitting K^{+} and K^{-} valleys (valley coherence) in monolayer WS_{2} with an out-of-plane magnetic field of up to 25 T. The magnetic-field-induced valley Zeeman splitting causes a rotation of the emission polarization with respect to the excitation by up to 35° and reduces the polarization degree by up to 16%. We explain both of these phenomena with a model based on two noninteracting coherent two-level systems. We deduce that the coherent light emission from the valleys decays with a time constant of τ_{c}=260 fs.