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Dynamical instability of a driven-dissipative electron-hole condensate in the BCS-BEC-crossover region

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-10-02 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Other Condensed Matter Quantum Gases Superconductivity

Abstract

We present a stability analysis on a driven-dissipative electron-hole condensate in the BCS (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer)-BEC (Bose-Einstein-condensation)-crossover region. Extending the combined BCS-Leggett theory with the generalized random phase approximation (GRPA) to the non-equilibrium case by employing the Keldysh formalism, we show that the pumping-and-decay of carriers causes a depairing effect on excitons. This phenomenon gives rise to an attractive interaction between excitons in the BEC regime, as well as a supercurrent that anomalously flows anti-parallel to θ(r)\nabla \theta({\bf r}) (where θ(r)\theta({\bf r}) is the phase of the condensate) in the BCS regime, both leading to dynamical instabilities of an exciton-BEC. Our result suggests that substantial region of the exciton-BEC phase in the phase diagram (in terms of the interaction strength and the decay rate) is unstable.

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@article{arxiv.1610.08622,
  title  = {Dynamical instability of a driven-dissipative electron-hole condensate in the BCS-BEC-crossover region},
  author = {Ryo Hanai and Peter B. Littlewood and Yoji Ohashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.08622},
  year   = {2017}
}

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20 pages, 14 figures