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Experiments aimed at demonstrating Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in two types of experiments with bilayer structures (coupled quantum wells) are reviewed, with an emphasis on the basic effects. Bose-Einstein condensation implies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-18 D. W. Snoke

The spontaneous interlayer phase coherent (111) state of bi-layer Quantum Hall system at filling factor $\nu=1$ may be viewed as a condensate of interlayer particle-hole pairs or excitons. We show in this paper that when the layers are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kun Yang

Exciton condensation, the Bose-Einstein-like condensation of quasibosonic particle-hole pairs, has been the subject of much theoretical and experimental interest and holds promise for ultra-energy-efficient technologies. Recent advances in…

For the excitons in the quantum well placed within a leaky cavity, the quantum decoherence of a mesoscopically superposed states is investigated based on the factorization theory for quantum dissipation. It is found that the coherence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yu-xi Liu , C. P. Sun , S. X. Yu

An ordered state of electrons in solids in which excitons condense was proposed many years ago as a theoretical possibility but has, until recently, never been observed. We review recent studies of semiconductor bilayer systems that provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. Eisenstein , A. H. MacDonald

We report on the spatial coherence of interlayer exciton ensembles as formed in MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterostructures and characterized by point-inversion Michelson-Morley interferometry. Below 10 K, the measured spatial coherence length of the…

In the 1960s speculations arose if a ground state exists in solid state materials with an electron and a hole bound to a pair with their spins added to integer values, i.e. excitons. Here we show that electrons and holes in TmSe0.45Te0.55…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-25 Benno Bucher , Tuson Park , J. D. Thompson , Peter Wachter

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 address theoretically the puzzling similarity observed in the thermodynamic behaviour of independent clouds of cold dipolar excitons in coupled semiconductor quantum wells. We argue that the condensation of self-trapped exciton gas…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 S. V. Andreev , A. A. Varlamov , A. V. Kavokin

In recent years, quantum information science has made significant progress, leading to a multitude of quantum protocols for the most diverse applications. States carrying resources such as quantum coherence are a key component for these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Yannik Brune , Elena Rozas , Ken West , Kirk Baldwin , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Jonathan Beaumariage , Hassan Alnatah , David W. Snoke , Marc Aßmann

We investigate the coherence properties of an atomic beam evaporatively cooled in a magnetic guide, assuming thermal equilibrium in the quantum degenerate regime. The gas experiences two-dimensional, transverse Bose-Einstein condensation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yvan Castin , Ralph Dum , Emmanuel Mandonnet , Anna Minguzzi , Iacopo Carusotto

Quantum degenerate cold-atom gases provide a remarkable opportunity to study strongly interacting systems. Recent experimental progress in producing ultracold polar molecules with a net electric dipole moment opens up new possibilities to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-16 Roman M. Lutchyn , Enrico Rossi , S. Das Sarma

We discuss models of the modulational instability in a cold exciton system in coupled quantum wells. One mechanism involves exciton formation in a photoexcited electron-hole system in the presence of stimulated binding processes which build…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-13 L S Levitov , B D Simons , L V Butov

We analyse the spatial and temporal coherence properties of a two-dimensional and finite sized polariton condensate with parameters tailored to the recent experiments which have shown spontaneous and thermal equilibrium polariton…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. H. Szymanska , F. M. Marchetti , J. Keeling , P. B. Littlewood

Coherence transfer is a multi-disciplinary topic of interest, including chemistry, biology and physics. In quantum technologies, achieving non-local coherent coupling between solid-state qubits is of the utmost importance. Here, we…

The bound electron-hole pairs known as excitons govern the optical properties of insulating solids. While their behavior in equilibrium is well-understood theoretically, the nonequilibrium regime at high excitation densities-where phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Pushpendra Yadav

Spatially indirect excitons can be created when an electron and a hole, confined to separate layers of a double quantum well system, bind to form a composite Boson. Because there is no recombination pathway such excitons are long lived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 J. I. A. Li , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean

We investigate the ground states of a Bose-Einstein condensate of indirect excitons coupled to an electron gas. We show that in a properly designed system, the crossing of a roton minimum into the negative energy domain can result in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Michal Matuszewski , Thomas Taylor , Alexey V. Kavokin

We perform Young's double-slit experiment to study the spatial coherence properties of a two-dimensional dynamic condensate of semiconductor microcavity polaritons. The coherence length of the system is measured as a function of the pump…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Hui Deng , Glenn S. Solomon , Rudolf Hey , Klaus H. Ploog , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

We report on time resolved measurements of the first order spatial coherence in an exciton polariton Bose-Einstein condensate. Long range spatial coherence is found to set in right at the onset of stimulated scattering, on a picosecond time…