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The importance of electron-hole interband interactions is widely acknowledged for iron-pnictide superconductors with high transition temperatures (Tc). However, high-Tc superconductivity without hole carriers has been suggested in FeSe…

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…

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

We investigated metal-insulator transitions for double layer two-dimensional electron hole systems in transition metal dicalcogenides (TMDC) stacked on opposite sides of thin layers of boron nitride (BN). The interparticle interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 S. T. Chui , Ning Wang , B. Tanatar

An odd number of gapless Dirac fermions is guaranteed to exist at a surface of a strong topological insulator. We show that in a thin-film geometry and under external bias, electron-hole pairs that reside in these surface states can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-15 B. Seradjeh , J. E. Moore , M. Franz

We study theoretically the effect of the fermion and boson densities on the superconductivity transition critical temperature $(T_c)$ of a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG), where superconductivity is mediated by a Bose-Einstein…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-15 E. D. Cherotchenko , T. Espinosa-Ortega , A. V. Nalitov , I. A. Shelykh , A. V. Kavokin

We theoretically investigate a Bose-condensed exciton gas out of equilibrium. Within the framework of the combined BCS-Leggett strong-coupling theory with the non-equilibrium Keldysh formalism, we show how the Bose-Einstein condensation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-29 Ryo Hanai , Peter B. Littlewood , Yoji Ohashi

We present here a microscopic two-band model based on the structure of energetic levels of holes in $\mathrm{CuO}_{2}$ conducting layers of cuprates. We prove that two energetically near-lying interacting bands can explain the electron-hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-03 J. -B. Bru , W. de Siqueira Pedra , A. -S. Dömel

Bilayer electron-hole systems undergo excitonic condensation when the distance d between the layers is smaller than the typical distance between particles within a layer. All excitons in this condensate have a fixed dipole moment which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Alexander V. Balatsky , Michael P. Lilly

Studies of different experimental groups that explore the properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in silicon semiconductor systems ((100) Si metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) and (100) SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-15 V. T. Dolgopolov

Synthetic platforms afford an unparalleled degree of controllability in realizing strongly-correlated phases of matter. In this work, we study the possibility of electrically tunable exciton-mediated superconductivity arising in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-09 Ajesh Kumar , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

We propose a generic topological insulator bilayer (TIB) system to study the excitonic condensation with self-consistent mean-field (SCMF) theory. We show that the TIB system presents the crossover behavior from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Zhigang Wang , Ningning Hao , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang

Recent experiments have shown that it is possible to create an in-plane harmonic potential trap for a two-dimensional (2D) gas of exciton-polaritons in a microcavity structure, and evidence has been reported of Bose-Einstein condensation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oleg L. Berman , Yurii E. Lozovik , David W. Snoke

Excitons in semiconductors may form correlated phases at low temperatures. We report the observation of an exciton liquid in GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum wells. Above a critical density and below a critical temperature the photogenerated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Michael Stern , Vladimir Umansky , Israel Bar-Joseph

Vertical heterostructures combining different layered materials offer novel opportunities for applications and fundamental studies of collective behavior driven by inter-layer Coulomb coupling. Here we report heterostructures comprising a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 A. Gamucci , D. Spirito , M. Carrega , B. Karmakar , A. Lombardo , M. Bruna , A. C. Ferrari , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Marco Polini , V. Pellegrini

The exciton condensate (EC), a coherent state of electron-hole pairs, has been robustly realized in two-dimensional quantum Hall bilayer systems at integer fillings. However, direct experimental evidence for many of the remarkable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Tianle Wang , Ruihua Fan , Zhehao Dai , Michael P. Zaletel

Excitons consist of electrons and holes held together by their attractive Coulomb interaction. Although excitons are neutral excitations, spatial fluctuations in their charge density couple with the ions of the crystal lattice. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-18 Zhenbang Dai , Chao Lian , Jon Lafuente-Bartolome , Feliciano Giustino

The BCS to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) crossover of electron-hole (e-h) pairs in optically excited semiconductors is studied using the two-band Hubbard model with both repulsive and attractive interactions. Applying the self-consistent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuh Tomio , Kotaro Honda , Tetsuo Ogawa

Quantum field-theory is developed for treating electrons and holes in planar systems. Non-unitary representations of Dirac equation in the plane are developed. These equations can be used for treating holes-electron pairing in high TC…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-26 Y. Ben-Aryeh