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A single monolayer of the layered semimetal WTe2 behaves as a two-dimensional topological insulator, with helical conducting edge modes surrounding a bulk state that becomes insulating at low temperatures. Here we present evidence that the…

Exciton condensation, characterized by uniform phase coherence across macroscopic length scales, has enabled the discovery of a variety of excitonic states, greatly enriching our understanding of correlated many-body physics. More exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Deguang Wu , Yiran Xue , Baigeng Wang , Rui Wang , D. Y. Xing

We theoretically investigate a Bose-condensed exciton gas out of equilibrium. Within the framework of the combined BCS-Leggett strong-coupling theory with the non-equilibrium Keldysh formalism, we show how the Bose-Einstein condensation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-29 Ryo Hanai , Peter B. Littlewood , Yoji Ohashi

We propose a state of excitonic solid for double layer two dimensional electron hole systems in transition metal dicalcogenides stacked on opposite sides of thin layers of BN. Properties of the exciton lattice such as its Lindemann ratio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 S. T. Chui , Ning Wang , Chun Yu Wan

A model for direct two band excitons in a disordered quantum well coupled to light in a cavity is investigated. In the limit in which the exciton density is high, we assess the impact of weak `pair-breaking' disorder on the feasibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. Marchetti , B. D. Simons , P. B. Littlewood

Excitons are electron-hole (e-h) pair quasiparticles, which may form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and collapse into the phase coherent state at low temperature. However, because of ephemeral strength of pairing, a clear evidence for BEC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Min-Kyu Joo , Youngjo Jin , Byoung Hee Moon , Hyun Kim , Sanghyub Lee , Young Hee Lee

Excitonic insulators represent a unique quantum phase of matter, providing a rich ground for studying exotic quantum bosonic states. Strongly coupled electron-hole bilayers, which host stable dipolar exciton fluids with an exciton density…

We propose that the exciton condensate may form in a well-controlled way in appropriately arranged semiconductor quantum well structures. The mean-field theory of Keldysh and Kopaev, exact in both the high density and the low density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Xuejun Zhu , P. B. Littlewood , M. S. Hybertsen , T. M. Rice

A theoretical model is developed for treating super conductive Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) effects for excitons in planar systems, under the condition that many excitons are included in a surface area, with the dimensions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Y. Ben-Aryeh

We study the exciton condensate in zero temperature limit in a special class of electron-hole bilayer systems adjacent to insulating ferromagnetic films. With the self-consistent mean-field approximation, we find that the Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ningning Hao , Ping Zhang , Yupeng Wang

Bose-Einstein condensate of exciton polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity is a macroscopically populated coherent quantum state subject to concurrent pumping and decay. Debates about the fundamental nature of the condensed phase in this…

An excitonic insulator$^{1,2}$ (EI) is a correlated many-body state of electron-hole pairs, potentially leading to high-temperature condensate and superfluidity$^{3-7}$. Despite ever-growing experiments suggesting possible EI states in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Fang Zhang , Jiawei Ruan , Gurjyot Sethi , Chen Hu , Steven G. Louie

The exciton condensate (EC), a coherent state of electron-hole pairs, has been robustly realized in two-dimensional quantum Hall bilayer systems at integer fillings. However, direct experimental evidence for many of the remarkable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Tianle Wang , Ruihua Fan , Zhehao Dai , Michael P. Zaletel

In a standard semiconductor laser, electrons and holes recombine via stimulated emission to emit coherent light, in a process that is far from thermal equilibrium. Exciton-polariton condensates -- sharing the same basic device structure as…

We consider excitons in a two-dimensional periodic potential and study the linear response of the excitonic superfluid to an electromagnetic wave at low and high densities. It turns out that the static structure factor for small wavevectors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 O. L. Berman , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , Y. E. Lozovik , K. Ziegler

Exciton condensates (EC) are macroscopic coherent states arising from condensation of electron-hole pairs. Bilayer heterostructures, consisting of two-dimensional electron and hole layers separated by a tunnel barrier, provide a versatile…

The ground state of two-dimensional (2D) electron systems with equal low densities of electrons and holes in nearby layers is an exciton fluid. We show that a reservoir for excitons can be established by contacting the two layers separately…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald

Exciton-polariton condensation occurs at the extrema of the underlying dispersion where the density of states diverges and carriers can naturally accumulate. The existence of multiple such points leads to coupling and competition between…

A quasi-exciton condensate is a phase characterized by quasi-long range order of an exciton (electron-hole pair) order parameter. Such a phase can arise naturally in a system of two parallel oppositely doped quantum wires, coupled by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yochai Werman , Erez Berg

We propose a projector-based renormalization framework to study exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensation in a microcavity matter-light system. Treating Coulomb interaction and electron-hole/photon coupling effects on an equal footing we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-26 Van-Nham Phan , Klaus W. Becker , Holger Fehske