Pump-Driven Opto-Magnetic Properties in Semiconducting Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides: An Analytical Model

Abstract

Single-layer transition-metal dichalcogenides provide an unique intrinsic entanglement between the spin/valley/orbital degrees of freedom and the polarization of scattered photons. This scenario gives rise to the well-assessed optical dichroism observed by using both steady and time-resolved probes. In this paper, we provide compact analytical modeling of the onset of a finite Faraday/Kerr optical rotation upon shining with circularly polarized light. We identify different optical features displaying optical rotation at different characteristic energies, and we describe in an analytical framework the time-dependence of their intensities as a consequence of the main spin-conserving and spin-flip processes.

Keywords

• transition-metal dichalcogenides
• magneto-optical properties
• time-resolved nonequilibrium spectroscopy
• quantum entanglement
• Faraday/Kerr rotation