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Due to their photonic components, exciton-polariton systems provide a convenient platform to study the coherence properties of weakly-interacting Bose gases. In particular, optical interferometry enables the measurement of the first-order…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-05 Joseph Jachinowski , Hassan Alnatah , David W. Snoke , Peter B. Littlewood

Decoherence is ubiquitous in quantum physics, from the conceptual foundations to quantum information processing or quantum technologies, where it is a threat that must be countered. While decoherence has been extensively studied for simple,…

We report direct evidence for macroscopic coherence in a condensate of dark dipolar excitons in coupled quantum wells and show that its formation follows a non-equilibrium, driven-dissipative mechanism. The condensation transition is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Amit Jash , Maheswar Swar , Uri Shimon , Vladimir Umansky , Israel Bar-Joseph

In this paper we present a study of an exciton system where electrons and holes are confined in double quantum well structures. The dominating interaction between excitons in such systems is a dipole - dipole repulsion. We show that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Laikhtman , R. Rapaport

A Bose--Einstein condensate of exciton polaritons coexisting with a Fermi gas of electrons has been recently proposed as a promising system for realisation of room-temperature superconductivity [Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 106402 (2010)]. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-18 F. P. Laussy , T. Taylor , I. A. Shelykh , A. V. Kavokin

The emergence of spatial coherence in a confined two-dimensional Bose gas of exciton-polaritons with tuneable interactions offers a unique opportunity to explore the role of interactions in a phase transition in a driven-dissipative quantum…

In recent years, experiments by several groups have demonstrated spontaneous coherence in polariton systems, which can be viewed as a type of nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation. In these systems, the polariton lifetime is longer…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-07 David W. Snoke

The region surrounding the excitonic insulator phase is a three-component plasma composed of electrons, holes, and excitons. Due to the extended nature of the excitons, their presence influences the surrounding electrons and holes. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 B Zenker , D Ihle , F X Bronold , H Fehske

Bose Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons has recently been reported in homogeneous structures only affected by random in-plane fluctuations. We have taken advantage of the ubiquitous defects in semiconductor microcavities to reveal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 D. Sanvitto , A. Amo , L. Vina , R. Andre , D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

We propose a way to increase the lifetime of two-dimensional direct excitons and show the possibility to observe their macroscopically coherent state at high temperatures. For a single GaAs quantum well embedded in photonic layered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Nina S. Voronova , Igor L. Kurbakov , Yurii E. Lozovik

We study quantum coherence properties of a dilute gas at temperatures above, but not much above the transition temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). In such a gas, a small proportion of the atoms may possess coherence lengths…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-08-12 Yinbiao Yang , Wen-ge Wang

We study the spontaneous decoherence of the coupled harmonic oscillators confined in a ring container, where the nearest-neighbor harmonic potentials are taken into consideration. Without any external symmetry breaking field or surrounding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Z. R. Gong , Z. W. Zhang , D. Z. Xu , N. Zhao , C. P. Sun

The influence of a random field induced by impurities, boundary irregularities etc. on the superfluidity of a quasi-two-dimensional (2D) system of spatially indirect excitons in coupled quantum wells is studied. The interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleg L. Berman , Yurii E. Lozovik , David W. Snoke , Rob D. Coalson

We demonstrate macroscopic coherence between quantum condensates generated at different times, separated by more than the particle dephasing time. This is possible due to the dressed light-matter nature of exciton-polaritons, which can be…

Electrons and holes can spontaneously form excitons and condense in a semimetal or semiconductor, as predicted decades ago. This type of Bose condensation can happen at much higher temperatures in comparison with dilute atomic gases.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Qiang Gao , Yang-hao Chan , Yuzhe Wang , Haotian Zhang , Jinxu Pu , Shengtao Cui , Yichen Yang , Zhengtai Liu , Dawei Shen , Zhe Sun , Juan Jiang , Tai C. Chiang , Peng Chen

A theory of the separation of a system of indirect excitons into a condensed and a gaseous phases with the formation of regular patterns of alternating phases in inhomogeneous external fields is developed. The theory is applied to the study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-04 V. I. Sugakov

We present compelling experimental evidence for a successful electrostatic trapping of two-dimensional dipolar excitons that results in stable formation of a well confined, high-density and spatially uniform dipolar exciton fluid. We show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Gang Chen , Ronen Rapaport , L. N. Pffeifer , K. West , P. M. Platzman , Steven Simon , Z. Voros , D. Snoke

We observe quasi-long range coherence in a two-dimensional condensate of exciton-polaritons. Our measurements are the first to confirm that the spatial correlation algebraically decays with a slow power-law, whose exponent quantitatively…

The spontaneous formation of lattice structure of quantized vortices is a characteristic feature of superfluidity in closed systems under thermal equilibrium. In exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate, which is a typical example of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-26 F. X. Sun , Z. X. Niu , Q. H. Gong , Q. Y. He , W. Zhang

The bilayer systems exhibit the Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons that emerge due to Coulomb pairing of electrons belonging to one layer with the holes belonging to the other layer. Here we present the microscopic derivation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 A. I. Bezuglyj , S. I. Shevchenko