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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…

Atomically thin semiconductor heterostructures provide a two-dimensional (2D) device platform for creating high densities of cold, controllable excitons. Interlayer excitons (IEs), bound electrons and holes localized to separate 2D quantum…

Exciton condensation, the Bose-Einstein-like condensation of quasibosonic particle-hole pairs, has been the subject of much theoretical and experimental interest and holds promise for ultra-energy-efficient technologies. Recent advances in…

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…

Bound electron-hole excitonic states are generally not expected to form with charges of negative effective mass. We identify such excitons in a single layer of the semiconductor WSe2, where they give rise to narrow-band upconverted…

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

We investigate the transport properties of a junction consisting of an electron-hole bilayer in contact with normal and superconducting leads. The electron-hole bilayer is considered as a semi-metal with two electronic bands. We assume that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-09 D. Bercioux , T. M. Klapwijk , F. S. Bergeret

The excitonic insulator (EI) is a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of excitons bound by electron-hole interaction in a solid, which could support high-temperature BEC transition. The material realization of EI has been elusive, which is…

We propose the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) and superfluidity of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) spatially indirect magnetobiexcitons in a slab of superlattice with alternating electron and hole layers consisting from the semiconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Yurii E. Lozovik

We introduce density imbalanced electron-hole bilayers at a commensurate 2 : 1 density ratio as a platform for realizing novel phases involving electrons, excitons and trions. Three length scales are identified which characterize the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 David D. Dai , Liang Fu

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

We consider an electron-hole bilayer in the limit of extreme density imbalance, where we have a single particle in one layer interacting attractively with a Fermi liquid in the other parallel layer. Using an appropriate variational wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-05 Meera M. Parish , Francesca M. Marchetti , Peter B. Littlewood

An excitonic insulator phase is expected to arise from the spontaneous formation of electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors where the exciton binding energy exceeds the size of the electronic band gap. At low temperature, these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-02 Selene Mor , Marc Herzog , Claude Monney , Julia Stähler

Strongly coupled two-dimensional electron-hole bilayers can give rise to novel quantum Bosonic states: electrons and holes in electrically isolated layers can pair into interlayer excitons, which can form a Bose-Einstein condensate below a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Ruishi Qi , Andrew Y. Joe , Zuocheng Zhang , Jingxu Xie , Qixin Feng , Zheyu Lu , Ziyu Wang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Sefaattin Tongay , Feng Wang

Exciton mediated superconductor is a fascinating quantum phase of matter that occurs when excitons become the dominant excitation in materials, which is also very promising for high temperature superconductor. However, there is no…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-20 Shisheng Lin , Shaoqi Huang , Minhui Yang , Xin Chen , Hongjia Bi , Kangchen Xiong

Electrons and holes in a semiconductor form hydrogen-atom-like bound states, called excitons. At high electron-hole densities the attractive Coulomb force becomes screened and excitons can no longer exist. Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-16 Marijn A. M. Versteegh , A. J. van Lange , H. T. C. Stoof , Jaap I. Dijkhuis

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

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

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…