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Emergent strongly-correlated electronic phenomena in atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides are an exciting frontier in condensed matter physics, with examples ranging from bilayer superconductivity~\cite{zhao2023evidence} and…

Recent theoretical and experimental studies suggest that van der Waals heterostructures with n- and p-doped bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides are promising facilitators of exciton superfluidity. Exciton superfluidity in such…

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Two dimensional materials and their heterostructures constitute a promising platform to study correlated electronic states as well as many body physics of excitons. Here, we present experiments that unite these hitherto separate efforts and…

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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

Two-dimensional (2D) layered nanomaterials heterostructures, arising from the combination of 2D materials with other low-dimensional species, feature large surface area to volume ratio, which provides a high density of active sites for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-19 Mengjiao Wang , Michal Langer , Roberto Altieri , Matteo Crisci , Silvio Osella , Teresa Gatti

Atomically-thin layers of two-dimensional materials can be assembled in vertical stacks held together by relatively weak van der Waals forces, allowing for coupling between monolayer crystals with incommensurate lattices and arbitrary…

We investigate the possibility of excitonic superfluidity in electron-hole bilayers. We calculate the phase diagram of the system for the whole range of electron-hole density imbalance and for different degrees of electrostatic screening,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-30 J. R. Varley , D. K. K. Lee

Bilayer crystals, built by stacking crystalline monolayers, generate interlayer potentials that govern excitonic phenomena but are constrained by fixed covalent lattices and orientations. Replacing one layer with an atomically thin…

Strongly bound excitons confined in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are dipoles with a perfect in-plane orientation. In a vertical stack of semiconducting 2D crystals, such in-plane excitonic dipoles are expected to efficiently couple…

We investigate the stability of electron-hole superfluidity in two-dimensional bilayers with unequal and anisotropic effective masses. Using a zero-temperature, self-consistent Hartree-Fock approach, we study two experimentally relevant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-30 Jihang Zhu , Sankar Das Sarma

Recently observed signatures of Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of dipolar excitons have drawn enormous attention to excitonic semiconductor bilayers. In superfluids, stabilization and observation of vortex matter is usually a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-29 Sara Conti , Andrey Chaves , Luis A. Pena Ardila , David Neilson , Milorad V. Milosevic

The quest for platforms to generate and control exotic excitonic states has greatly benefited from the advent of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and their heterostructures. Among the unconventional excitonic states,…

We study the occurrence of excitonic superfluidity in electron-hole bilayers at zero temperature. We not only identify the crossover in the phase diagram from the BCS limit of overlapping pairs to the BEC limit of non-overlapping…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Pieri , D. Neilson , G. C. Strinati

We propose a material platform comprised of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures to realize the two-dimensional (2D) helical superconductivity with an intrinsic gap. By van der Waals stacking a 2D superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-12 Xuance Jiang , Jennifer Cano , Yuan Ping , Yafis Barlas , Deyu Lu

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

We present a comprehensive study of the band alignments of two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials and highlight the possibilities of forming momentum-matched type I, II and III heterojunctions; an enticing possibility being atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-13 V. Ongun Özçelik , Javad G. Azadani , Ce Yang , Steven J. Koester , Tony Low

Epitaxial bilayer silicon oxide is a transferable two-dimensional material predicted to be a wide band gap semiconductor, with potential applications for deep UV optoelectronics, or as a building block of van der Waals heterostructures. The…

Artificial moir\'e superlattices in 2d van der Waals heterostructure is a new venue for realizing and controlling correlated electronic phenomena. Recently, twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ emerged as a new robust moir\'e system hosting a correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhen Bi , Liang Fu

Moir\'e materials with flat electronic bands provide a highly controllable quantum system for studies of strong-correlation physics and topology. In particular, angle-aligned heterobilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Yang Xu , Kaifei Kang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Superfluidity in coupled electron-hole sheets of bilayer graphene is predicted here to be multicomponent because of the conduction and valence bands. We investigate the superfluid crossover properties as functions of the tunable carrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-27 S. Conti , A. Perali , F. M. Peeters , D. Neilson