1. Photoluminescence imaging of single photon emitters within nanoscale strain profiles in monolayer WSe$_2$
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Abramov, Artem N., Chestnov, Igor Y., Alimova, Ekaterina S., Ivanova, Tatiana, Mukhin, Ivan S., Krizhanovskii, Dmitry N., Shelykh, Ivan A., Iorsh, Ivan V., and Kravtsov, Vasily
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Quantum Physics ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics ,Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) - Abstract
Local deformation of atomically thin van der Waals materials provides a powerful approach to create site-controlled chip-compatible single-photon emitters (SPEs). However, the microscopic mechanisms underlying the formation of such strain-induced SPEs are still not fully clear, which hinders further efforts in their deterministic integration with nanophotonic structures for developing practical on-chip sources of quantum light. Here we investigate SPEs with single-photon purity up to 98% created in monolayer WSe$_2$ via nanoindentation. Using photoluminescence imaging in combination with atomic force microscopy, we locate single-photon emitting sites on a deep sub-wavelength spatial scale and reconstruct the details of the surrounding local strain potential. The obtained results suggest that the origin of the observed single-photon emission is likely related to strain-induced spectral shift of dark excitonic states and their hybridization with localized states of individual defects., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures
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- 2023
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