The moiré superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers have a pronounced effect on the optical properties of interlayer excitons (IXs) and have been intensively studied in recent years. However, the impact of the moiré potentials on the temporal coherence of the IXs has not yet been investigated in detail. Here, we systematically investigate the coherence properties of both the ensemble of delocalized IXs and the ensemble of localized IXs trapped
in moiré potentials of the hexagonal boron nitride encapsulated WSe2-MoSe2 heterostructures. Our low-temperature first-order correlation measurements show that prolonged T2 dephasing
times with values up to 700 fs can be obtained from the ensemble of localized IXs under moderate pump powers. We observed up to a fourfold increase over the values we obtained from the delocalized IXs, while a twofold over the previously reported values of T2~300 fs from the delocalized IXs. The prolonged values of T2 dephasing times and narrow photoluminescence (PL) line widths for the ensemble of moiré-trapped IXs compared to
delocalized one indicate that dephasing mechanisms caused by exciton-low energy acoustic phonon and exciton-exciton scattering are significantly suppressed due to the presence of
localization potentials. Our results show that ultra-long dephasing times can be expected if the dephasing time measurements are performed with the narrow photoluminescence emission line of a single moiré-trapped IX at a low pump power regime. The prolonged values of IX dephasing times would be critical for the applications of quantum information science and the development of two-dimensional material-based nanolasers.
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