Scientists Found the "dark Matter" of Electronics

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> "In the general field of electronics, one manipulates electron charge to process information," explains Xing Zhu, co-first author and PhD student in the unit. "In the field of spintronics, we exploit the spin of electrons to carry information. Going further, in valleytronics, the crystal structure of unique materials enables us to encode information into distinct momentum states of the electrons, known as valleys." The ability to use the valley dimension of dark excitons to carry information positions them as promising candidates for quantum technologies. Dark excitons are by nature more resistant to environmental factors like thermal background than the current generation of qubits, potentially requiring less extreme cooling and making them less prone to decoherence, where the unique quantum state breaks down

ScholarlyArticle: "A holistic view of the dynamics of long-lived valley polarized dark excitonic states in monolayer WS2" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61677-2

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