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Excitons, the bosonic quasiparticle emerging from Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes, will undergo a Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC) and transition into a superfluid state with global phase coherence at low temperatures. An…

In this paper we suggest a method to observe remote interactions of spatially separated dipolar quantum fluids, and in particular of dipolar excitons in GaAs bilayer based devices. The method utilizes the static electric dipole moment of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Kobi Cohen , Ronen Rapaport , Paulo Santos

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

Combining the capabilities of gate defined quantum transport devices in GaAs-based heterostructures and of optically addressed self-assembled quantum dots could open broad perspectives for new devices and functionalities. For example,…

Semiconductor microresonators embedding quantum wells can host tightly confined and mutually interacting excitonic, optical and mechanical modes at once. We theoretically investigate the case where the system operates in the strong…

Excitonic insulators conduct neither electrons nor holes but bound electron-hole pairs, excitons. Unfortunately, it is not possible to inject and detect the electron and hole currents independently within a single semiconducting layer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Maxim Trushin

An indirect exciton is a bound state of an electron and a hole in spatially separated layers. Two-dimensional indirect excitons can be created optically in heterostructures containing double quantum wells or atomically thin semiconductors.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chao Xu , J. R. Leonard , C. J. Dorow , L. V. Butov , M. M. Fogler , D. E. Nikonov , I. A. Young

Nonlinear interactions between excitons strongly coupled to light are key for accessing quantum many-body phenomena in polariton systems. Atomically-thin two-dimensional semiconductors provide an attractive platform for strong light-matter…

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…

We propose an all-optical implementation of quantum-information processing in semiconductor quantum dots, where electron-hole excitations (excitons) serve as the computational degrees of freedom (qubits). We show that the strong dot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Filippo Troiani , Ulrich Hohenester , Elisa Molinari

When a semiconductor absorbs light, the resulting electron-hole superposition amounts to a uncontrolled quantum ripple that eventually degenerates into diffusion. If the conformation of these excitonic superpositions could be engineered,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Xiaoning Zang , Simone Montangero , Lincoln D. Carr , Mark T. Lusk

Bound electron-hole pairs in semiconductors known as excitons are the subject of intense research due to their potential for optoelectronic devices and applications, especially in the realm of two-dimensional materials. While the properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Peter A. Noordman , Lucas Maisel Licerán , Henk T. C. Stoof

Excitons are elementary optical excitation in semiconductors. The ability to manipulate and transport these quasiparticles would enable excitonic circuits and devices for quantum photonic technologies. Recently, interlayer excitons in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Ruoming Peng , Adina Ripin , Yusen Ye , Jiayi Zhu , Changming Wu , Seokhyeong Lee , Huan Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Ting Cao , Xiaodong Xu , Mo Li

Interlayer excitons in two dimensional semiconductor heterostructures show suppressed electron-hole overlap resulting in longer radiative lifetimes as compared to intralyer excitons. Such tightly bound interlayer excitons are relevant for…

We report quantum Monte Carlo calculations of biexciton binding energies in ideal two-dimensional bilayer systems with isotropic electron and hole masses. We have also calculated exciton-exciton interaction potentials, and pair distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-10 R. M. Lee , N. D. Drummond , R. J. Needs

While optical technology provides the best solution for the transmission of information, optical logics still calls for qualitative new concepts to be explored. Exciton-polaritons are composite particles, resulting from the strong coupling…

The main objective of the present work is the development of an analytically tractable model of screened electron-electron and electron-exciton interactions in layered systems composed of two parallel semiconductor quantum wells separated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-14 Henni Ouerdane

Excitons, composite electron-hole quasiparticles, are known to play an important role in optoelectronic phenomena in many semiconducting materials. Recent experiments and theory indicate that the band-gap optics of the newly discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Yuri N. Gartstein , Xiao Li , Chuanwei Zhang

Excitons -- quasiparticles formed by the binding of an electron and a hole through electrostatic attraction -- hold promise in the fields of quantum light confinement and optoelectronic sensing. Atomically thin transition metal…

We report electrical transport measurements on GaAs/AlGaAs based electron-hole bilayers. These systems are expected to make a transition from a pair of weakly coupled two-dimensional systems to a strongly coupled exciton system as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Seamons , C. P. Morath , J. L. Reno , M. P. Lilly