Dynamic Generation of Spin Spirals of Moiré Trapped Carriers via Exciton Mediated Spin Interactions

Abstract

<p>Stacking transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) to form moiré superlattices has provided exciting opportunities to explore many-body correlation phenomena of the moiré trapped carriers. TMD bilayers, on the other hand, host long-lived interlayer exciton (IX), an elementary excitation of long spin-valley lifetime that can be optically or electrically injected. Here we find that, through the Coulomb exchange between mobile IXs and carriers, the IX bath can mediate both Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya type spin interactions between moiré trapped carriers, controllable by exciton density and exciton spin current, respectively. We show the strong Heisenberg interaction and the extraordinarily long-ranged Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction here can jointly establish robust spin spiral magnetic orders in Mott–Wigner crystal states at various filling factors, with the spiral direction controlled by the exciton current.<br></p>