Exciton localization on a magnetic domain wall in MoSe$_2$-CrI$_3$ heterostructure

Abstract

The existence of spontaneous magnetization that fingerprints a ground-state ferromagnetic order was recently observed in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials. Despite progress in the fabrication and manipulation of the atom-thick magnets, investigation of nanoscale magnetization properties is still challenging due to the concomitant technical issues. We propose a promising approach for a direct visualization of the domain walls formed in 2D magnetic materials. By interfacing 2D magnet with a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayer, the strong proximity effects enable pinning the TMD excitons on the domain wall. The emergent localization stems from the proximity-induced exchange mixing between spin-dark and spin-bright TMD excitons due to the local in-plane magnetization characteristic of the domain wall in the magnetic monolayer.