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Giant and Helical Exciton Dipole from Berry Curvature in Flat Chern Bands
Kaijie Yang1, Huiyuan Zheng1, Xiaodong Xu1,2
1University of Washington, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Abstract:
We show that excitons forming between moiré flat Chern bands possess a substantial electric dipole moment comparable to the moiré lattice parameter times the elementary charge (∼10^{2} D). At a hole filling factor of 1 in twisted MoTe_{2}, the dipole moment of the lowest-energy exciton branch develops in-plane helical texture in momentum space from the intrinsic Berry curvature of electron and hole. By solving the Bethe-Salpeter equations, we demonstrate that an out-of-plane displacement field induces a Frenkel-to-Wannier exciton transition, accompanied by a reversal of the dipole texture helicity. The giant dipole produces an attractive dipole-dipole interaction channel, suggesting a possible quadrupolar biexciton measurable via two-photon spectroscopy. Our findings establish band topology as a tunable knob to engineer exciton dipole moments and pave the way to manipulate many-body interactions in the terahertz regime.
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