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Crystallization in mass-asymmetric electron-hole bilayers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We consider a \textit{mass-asymmetric} electron and hole bilayer. Electron and hole Coulomb correlations and electron and hole quantum effects are treated on first princles by path integral Monte Carlo methods. For a fixed layer separation we vary the mass ratio MM of holes and electrons between 1 and 100 and analyze the structural changes in the system. While, for the chosen density, the electrons are in a nearly homogeneous state, the hole arrangement changes from homogeneous to localized, with increasing MM which is verified for both, mesoscopic bilayers in a parabolic trap and for a macroscopic system.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611556,
  title  = {Crystallization in mass-asymmetric electron-hole bilayers},
  author = {P. Ludwig and A. Filinov and Yu. E. Lozovik and H. Stolz and M. Bonitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611556},
  year   = {2009}
}

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