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Quantum Hall systems host quasiparticles demonstrating correlated electron physics and non-trivial quantum statistics. Excitonic phases, archetypical for interaction effect, have attracted significant interest in recent years in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Rui Pu , Naomi Mizuno , Fernando Camino , Runchen Li , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dmitri Averin , Xu Du

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

Various properties of interlayer excitons in double-layer transition metal dichalcogenides quantum dots are analyzed using a low-energy effective Hamiltonian with Coulomb interaction. We solve the single-particle Hamiltonian with and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Xiang Liu , Zheng Tao , Wenchen Luo , Tapash Chakraborty

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their moir\'e interfaces have been demonstrated for correlated electron states, including Mott insulators and electron/hole crystals commensurate with moir\'e superlattices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Yusong Bai , Yiliu Li , Song Liu , Yinjie Guo , Jordan Pack , Jue Wang , Cory R. Dean , James Hone , X. -Y. Zhu

Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as MoSe$_2$ and WSe$_2$, exhibit unique optical and electronic properties. Vertical stacking of layers of one or more TMDs, to create heterostructures, has expanded the fields of…

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

One of the most spectacular properties associated with Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is superfluidity in which the system exhibits zero viscosity and flows without dissipation. The superfluid phase has been observed in wide ranging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yihang Zeng , Dihao Sun , Naiyuan J. Zhang , Ron Q. Nguyen , Qianhui Shi , A. Okounkova , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. Hone , C. R. Dean , J. I. A. Li

Fabricating van der Waals (vdW) bilayer heterostructures (BL-HS) by stacking the same or different two-dimensional (2D) layers, offers a unique physical system with rich electronic and optical properties. Twist-angle between component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Kha Tran , Junho Choi , Akshay Singh

We act on the suggestion that an excitonic insulator state might separate---at very low temperatures---a semimetal from a semiconductor and ask for the nature of these transitions. Based on the analysis of electron-hole pairing in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Zenker , D. Ihle , F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske

The physics of excitons, electron-hole pairs that are bound together by their mutual Coulomb attraction, can to great extent be understood in the framework of the quantum-mechanical hydrogen model. This model has recently been challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Maxim Trushin , Mark Oliver Goerbig , Wolfgang Belzig

A supersolid, a counter-intuitive quantum state in which a rigid lattice of particles flows without resistance, has to date not been unambiguously realised. Here we reveal a supersolid ground state of excitons in a double-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Sara Conti , Andrea Perali , Alexander R. Hamilton , Milorad V. Milosevic , Francois M. Peeters , David Neilson

Excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, play a fundamental role in both optical excitation and correlated phenomena in solids. When an exciton interacts with other quasi-particles, few- and many-body excited states, such as trions,…

Exciton problem is solved in the two-dimensional Dirac model with allowance for strong electron-hole attraction. The exciton binding energy is assumed smaller than but comparable to the band gap. The exciton wavefunction is found in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 N. V. Leppenen , L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

Ignited by the discovery of the metal-insulator transition, the behaviour of low-disorder two-dimensional (2D) electron systems is currently the focus of a great deal of attention. In the strongly-interacting limit, electrons are expected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Pedro Brussarski , S. Li , S. V. Kravchenko , A. A. Shashkin , M. P. Sarachik

A single monolayer of the layered semimetal WTe2 behaves as a two-dimensional topological insulator, with helical conducting edge modes surrounding a bulk state that becomes insulating at low temperatures. Here we present evidence that the…

Strongly correlated bosons in a lattice are a platform to realize rich bosonic states of matter and quantum phase transitions. While strongly correlated bosons in a lattice have been studied in cold-atom experiments, their realization in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Yihang Zeng , Zhengchao Xia , Roei Dery , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Exciton condensates (EC) are macroscopic coherent states arising from condensation of electron-hole pairs. Bilayer heterostructures, consisting of two-dimensional electron and hole layers separated by a tunnel barrier, provide a versatile…

A Bose-Einstein condensate is the ground state of a dilute gas of bosons, such as atoms cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. With much smaller mass, excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) are expected to condense at significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Zefang Wang , Daniel A. Rhodes , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James C. Hone , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Exciton condensation in an electron-hole bilayer system of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is analyzed at three different levels of theory to account for screening and quasiparticle renormalization. The large effective masses of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Bishwajit Debnath , Yafis Barlas , Darshana Wickramaratne , Mahesh R. Neupane , Roger K. Lake

We investigate transresistance effects in electron-hole double layer systems with an excitonic condensate. Our theory is based on the use of a minimum dissipation premise to fix the current carried by the condensate. We find that the drag…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Giovanni Vignale , A. H. MacDonald