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Interlayer excitons with tunable dispersion relation

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-06-08 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Interlayer excitons, comprising an electron in one material bound by Coulomb attraction to a hole in an adjacent material, are composite bosons that can assume a variety of many-body phases. The phase diagram of the bosonic system is largely determined by the dispersion relation of the bosons, which itself arises as a combination of the dispersion relations of the electron and hole separately. Here I show that in situations where either the electron or the hole has a non-monotonic, "Mexican hat-shaped" dispersion relation, the exciton dispersion relation can have a range of qualitatively different forms, each corresponding to a different many-body phase at low temperature. This diversity suggests a novel platform for continuously tuning between different quantum phases using an external field.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00325,
  title  = {Interlayer excitons with tunable dispersion relation},
  author = {Brian Skinner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00325},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5+2 pages, 5 figures

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