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Electron-hole bound pairs, or excitons, are common excitations in semiconductors. They can spontaneously form and ``condense'' into a new insulating ground state -- the so-called excitonic insulator -- when the energy of electron-hole…

By systematic theoretical calculations, we have revealed an excitonic insulator (EI) in the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer. The bulk Ta2Pd3Te5 is a van der Waals (vdW) layered compound, whereas the vdW layer can be obtained through exfoliation or…

The excitonic insulator (EI) is a more than 60-year-old theoretical proposal that yet remains elusive. It is a purely quantum phenomenon involving the spontaneous generation of excitons in quantum mechanics and the spontaneous condensation…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-03 H. W. Qu , H. T. Liu , Y. C. Li

Twisted multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a promising platform for realizing topological exciton phases. Here we propose that twisted TMD heterotrilayers WX$_2$/MX$_2$/WX$_2$ with layer symmetry represents a realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Ze-Hong Guo , Tao Yan , Jin-Zhu Zhao , Yuan-Jun Jin , Qizhong Zhu

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

The additional layer degree of freedom in trilayer moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenides enables the emergence of novel excitonic species, such as quadrupolar excitons, which exhibit unique excitonic interactions and…

We present a theory of bilayer two-dimensional electron systems that host a spatially indirect exciton condensate when in thermal equilibrium. Equilibrium bilayer exciton condensates (BXCs) are expected to form when two nearby semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Feng-Cheng Wu , Fei Xue , A. H. MacDonald

Excitons in semiconductors, bound pairs of excited electrons and holes, can form the basis for new classes of quantum optoelectronic devices. A van der Waals heterostructure built from atomically thin semiconducting transition metal…

Interlayer excitons, or bound electron-hole pairs whose constituent quasiparticles are located in distinct stacked semiconducting layers, are being intensively studied in heterobilayers of two dimensional semiconductors. They owe their…

The spontaneous interlayer phase coherent (111) state of bi-layer Quantum Hall system at filling factor $\nu=1$ may be viewed as a condensate of interlayer particle-hole pairs or excitons. We show in this paper that when the layers are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kun Yang

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) moir\'e superlattices, owing to the moir\'e flatbands and strong correlation, can host periodic electron crystals and fascinating correlated physics. The TMDC heterojunctions in the type-II alignment…

Time reversal symmetric topological insulators are generically robust with respect to weak local interaction, unless symmetry breaking transitions take place. Using dynamical mean-field theory we solve an interacting model of quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 A. Amaricci , G. Mazza , M. Capone , M. Fabrizio

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

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

Strongly enhanced electron-electron interaction in semiconducting moir\'e superlattices formed by transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterobilayers has led to a plethora of intriguing fermionic correlated states. Meanwhile, interlayer…

Excitons are pairs of electrons and holes bound together by the Coulomb interaction. At low temperatures, excitons can form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), enabling macroscopic phase coherence and superfluidity. An electronic double layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xiaomeng Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bertrand I. Halperin , Philip Kim

Recent experiments have confirmed the presence of interlayer excitons in the ground state of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers. The interlayer excitons are expected to show remarkable transport properties when they undergo Bose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Nishchhal Verma , Daniele Guerci , Raquel Queiroz

TiSe$_2$ has long been considered one of the best candidate materials to host the elusive excitonic insulator (EI) phase. However, a finite coupling to the lattice can generically be expected, while a lack of "smoking-gun" signatures for…

The bound electron-hole pairs known as excitons govern the optical properties of insulating solids. While their behavior in equilibrium is well-understood theoretically, the nonequilibrium regime at high excitation densities-where phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Pushpendra Yadav

We study the conditions to realize an excitonic condensed phase in an electron-hole bilayer system with local Hubbard-like interactions at half-filling, where we can address the interplay with Mott localization. Using Dynamical Mean-Field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-15 Samuele Giuli , Adriano Amaricci , Massimo Capone