Striped excitonic (super)solid in anisotropic semiconductors with screened exciton interactions
Abstract
Within the Gross-Pitaevskii framework, we reveal the emergence of a crystallized phase of an exciton condensate in an atomically-thin anisotropic semiconductor, where screening of exciton-exciton interactions is introduced by a proximal doped graphene layer. While such screened interactions are expected to yield a hexagonal crystal lattice in the excitonic condensate in isotropic semiconductor quantum wells [see e.g. Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{108}, 060401 (2012)], here we show that for atomically thin semiconductors with strong electronic anisotropy, such as few-layer black phosphorus, the crystallized exciton phase acquires a parallel stripe structure - unanticipated to date. The optimal conditions for the emergence of this phase, as well as for its coexistence with excitonic superfluidity in a striped supersolid phase, are identified.
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@article{arxiv.2506.19685,
title = {Striped excitonic (super)solid in anisotropic semiconductors with screened exciton interactions},
author = {J. F. de Oliveira Neto and F. M. A. Guimarães and Davi S. Dantas and F. M. Peeters and M. V. Milošević and A. Chaves},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.19685},
year = {2025}
}