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Identifying materials hosting an excitonic insulator ground state has been one of the major pursuits in condensed matter physics in recent years. Promising candidates in transition metal chalcogenide compounds (TMC), including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Yao Zeng , Shi-Cong Mo , Wéi Wú

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

Two-dimensional (2D) moire materials provide a new solid-state platform with unprecedented controllability for studies of correlated quantum phenomena. To date, experimental studies have focused on the correlated electronic states; the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Jie Gu , Liguo Ma , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James C. Hone , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Excitonic insulator (EI) was proposed in 60's as a distinct insulating state originating from pure electronic interaction, but its material realization has been elusive with extremely few material candidates and with only limited evidence…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 Jinwon Lee , Chang-Jong Kang , Man Jin Eom , Jun Sung Kim , Byung Il Min , Han Woong Yeom

Excitonic Bose-Einstein condensation (EBEC) has drawn increasing attention recently with the emergence of 2D materials. A general criterion for EBEC, as expected in an excitonic insulator (EI) state, is to have negative exciton formation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-05 Gurjyot Sethi , Martin Cuma , Feng Liu

Excitonic insulators represent a unique quantum phase of matter, providing a rich ground for studying exotic quantum bosonic states. Strongly coupled electron-hole bilayers, which host stable dipolar exciton fluids with an exciton density…

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…

Spatially indirect excitons can be created when an electron and a hole, confined to separate layers of a double quantum well system, bind to form a composite Boson. Because there is no recombination pathway such excitons are long lived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 J. I. A. Li , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean

We investigate the ground state of a balanced electron-hole system in the quantum Hall regime using mean-field theory and obtain a rich phase diagram as a function of interlayer distance d and the filling factor within a layer. We identify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 C. -H. Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

A panoply of unconventional electronic states has been observed in moir\'e superlattices. Engineering similar bosonic phases remains, however, largely unexplored. We report the observation of a bosonic correlated insulator in WSe2/WS2…

In this paper, first, we present a general formulation to investigate the ground-state and elementary excitations of an excitonic insulator (EI) in real materials. In addition, we discuss the out-of-equilibrium state induced (albeit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-03 Efstratios Manousakis

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,…

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

Excitonic insulator is a coherent electronic phase that results from the formation of a macroscopic population of bound particle-hole pairs - excitons. With only a few candidate materials known, the collective excitonic behavior is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-27 Pavel A. Volkov , Mai Ye , Himanshu Lohani , Irena Feldman , Amit Kanigel , Girsh Blumberg

The excitonic insulator is an elusive electronic phase exhibiting a correlated excitonic ground state. Materials with such a phase are expected to have intriguing properties such as excitonic high-temperature superconductivity. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-07 Dominik Christiansen , Malte Selig , Mariana Rossi , Andreas Knorr

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

In the 1960s speculations arose if a ground state exists in solid state materials with an electron and a hole bound to a pair with their spins added to integer values, i.e. excitons. Here we show that electrons and holes in TmSe0.45Te0.55…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-25 Benno Bucher , Tuson Park , J. D. Thompson , Peter Wachter

Long-lived indirect excitons (IXs) exhibit a rich phase diagram, including a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a Wigner crystal, and other exotic phases. Recent experiments have hinted at a new, "classical" liquid of IXs above the BEC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Paul R. Wrona , Eran Rabani , Phillip L. Geissler

We predict a phase transition in freestanding monolayer Xenes from the semiconducting phase to the excitonic insulating (EI) phase can be induced by reducing an external electric field below some critical value which is unique to each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Matthew N. Brunetti , Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili

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