Coupling of MoS_{2} Excitons with Lattice Phonons and Cavity Vibrational Phonons in Hybrid Nanobeam Cavities

Phys Rev Lett. 2023 Mar 24;130(12):126901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.126901.

Abstract

We report resonant Raman spectroscopy of neutral excitons X^{0} and intravalley trions X^{-} in hBN-encapsulated MoS_{2} monolayer embedded in a nanobeam cavity. By temperature tuning the detuning between Raman modes of MoS_{2} lattice phonons and X^{0}/X^{-} emission peaks, we probe the mutual coupling of excitons, lattice phonons and cavity vibrational phonons. We observe an enhancement of X^{0}-induced Raman scattering and a suppression for X^{-}-induced, and explain our findings as arising from the tripartite exciton-phonon-phonon coupling. The cavity vibrational phonons provide intermediate replica states of X^{0} for resonance conditions in the scattering of lattice phonons, thus enhancing the Raman intensity. In contrast, the tripartite coupling involving X^{-} is found to be much weaker, an observation explained by the geometry-dependent polarity of the electron and hole deformation potentials. Our results indicate that phononic hybridization between lattice and nanomechanical modes plays a key role in the excitonic photophysics and light-matter interaction in 2D-material nanophotonic systems.