Interactions and Magnetotransport through Spin-Valley Coupled Landau Levels in Monolayer MoS2

Pisoni, Riccardo and Kormányos, Andor and Brooks, Matthew and Lei, Zijin and Back, Patrick (2018) Interactions and Magnetotransport through Spin-Valley Coupled Landau Levels in Monolayer MoS2. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 121 (24). ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

The strong spin-orbit coupling and the broken inversion symmetry in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides results in spin-valley coupled band structures. Such a band structure leads to novel applications in the fields of electronics and optoelectronics. Density functional theory calculations as well as optical experiments have focused on spin-valley coupling in the valence band. Here we present magnetotransport experiments on high-quality n-type monolayer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) samples, displaying highly resolved Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations at magnetic fields as low as 2 T. We find the effective mass 0.7m(e), about twice as large as theoretically predicted and almost independent of magnetic field and carrier density. We further detect the occupation of the second spin-orbit split band at an energy of about 15 meV, i.e., about a factor of 5 larger than predicted. In addition, we demonstrate an intricate Landau level spectrum arising from a complex interplay between a density-dependent Zeeman splitting and spin- and valley-split Landau levels. These observations, enabled by the high electronic quality of our samples, testify to the importance of interaction effects in the conduction band of monolayer MoS2.

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