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We study density-balanced, mass-asymmetric electron-hole bilayers as a tunable platform for correlated quantum phases. With independent control of carrier density and interlayer separation, the system exhibits a rich phase diagram,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-27 Luca Nashabeh , Liang Fu

Double layer systems where one layer has electrons and the holes are in a parallel layer a distance d away are expected to undergo excitonic condensation at low temperature. This excitonic condensate is traditionally described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-19 Christopher R. Jamell , Chang-hua Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

Bound electron-hole pairs in semiconductors known as excitons can form a coherent state at low temperatures akin to a BCS condensate. The resulting phase is known as the excitonic insulator and has superfluid properties. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-06 L. Maisel Licerán , H. T. C. Stoof

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…

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

The condensation of excitons, bound electron-hole pairs in a solid, into a coherent collective electronic state was predicted over 50 years ago. Perhaps surprisingly, the phenomenon was first observed in a system consisting of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 J. P. Eisenstein

The binding energy and wavefunctions of two-dimensional indirect biexcitons are studied analytically and numerically. It is proven that stable biexcitons exist only when the distance between electron and hole layers is smaller than a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-11 A. D. Meyertholen , M. M. Fogler

We discuss, from a theoretical point of view, excitonic phases at the pressure induced semiconductor-semimetal transition in $\rm TmSe_{0.45}Te_{0.55}$,focusing, in particular, on the stability against an electron-hole liquid. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-08 Franz X. Bronold , Holger Fehske , Gerd Roepke

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

We theoretically predict that a true bilayer exciton condensate,characterised by off-diagonal long range order and global phase coherence, can be created in one-dimensional solid state electron systems. The mechanism by which this happens…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-08 A. Kantian , D. S. L. Abergel

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

Interlayer excitons are bound states of electrons and holes confined in separate two-dimensional layers. Due to their repulsive dipolar interaction, interlayer excitons can form a correlated liquid. If another electron-hole bilayer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Chao Xu , Michael Fogler

The Bose condensation of 2D dipolar excitons in quantum wells is numerically studied by the diffusion Monte Carlo simulation method. The correlation, microscopic, thermodynamic, and spectral characteristics are calculated. It is shown that,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu. E. Lozovik , I. L. Kurbakov , G. E. Astrakharchik , M. Willander

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

Excitons are spin integer particles that are predicted to condense into a coherent quantum state at sufficiently low temperature, and exciton condensates can be realized at much higher temperature than condensates of atoms because of strong…

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

Many-body interactions can produce novel ground states in a condensed-matter system. For example, interacting electrons and holes can spontaneously form excitons, a neutral bound state, provided that the exciton binding energy exceeds the…

We develop a microscopic theory of the linear electromagnetic response of bilayer excitonic insulators relevant to electron-hole double-layer systems. Using a self-consistent Hartree-Fock description of the excitonic ground state and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Yuelin Shao , Hao Shi , Xi Dai

We study the conditions to realize an excitonic condensed phase in an electron-hole bilayer system with local Hubbard-like interactions at half-filling, where we can address the interplay with Mott localization. Using Dynamical Mean-Field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-15 Samuele Giuli , Adriano Amaricci , Massimo Capone

Several recent experiments have reported an anomalous temperature dependence of the Coulomb drag effect in electron-hole bilayers. Motivated by these puzzling data, we study theoretically a low-density electron-hole bilayer, where electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Victor Galitski