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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

We calculate the critical temperature below which an excitonic insulator exists at the pressure-induced semiconductor-semimetal transition. Our approach is based on an effective-mass model for valence and conduction band electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Franz X. Bronold , Holger Fehske

Quantum chaos in many-body systems may be characterized by the Lyapunov exponent defined as the exponential growth rate of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC). So far Lyaponov exponents around various quantum critical points (QCP) remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-01 Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Graphite under high magnetic field exhibits consecutive metal-insulator (MI) transitions as well as re-entrant insulator-metal (IM) transition in the quasi-quantum limit at low temperature. In this paper, we identify the low-$T$ insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Zhiming Pan , Xiao-Tian Zhang , Ryuichi Shindou

Three-dimensional gapless semiconductors with quadratic band touching, such as HgTe, $\alpha$-Sn, or Pr$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ are believed to display a non-Fermi-liquid ground state due to long-range electron-electron interaction. We argue that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-07 Lukas Janssen , Igor F. Herbut

Recent research on excitonic insulator has progressed mainly based on narrow bandgap semiconductor or semimetal. Herein, we realize excitonic insulator based on two-dimensional (2D) wide band gap diamond with transition temperature as high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Shisheng Lin , Shaoqi Huang , Minhui Yang , Xin Chen , Hongjia Bi , Kangchen Xiong

Half a century ago, Mott noted that tuning the carrier density of a semimetal towards zero produces an insulating state in which electrons and holes form bound pairs. It was later argued that such pairing persists even if a semiconducting…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-23 Z. Zhu , R. D. McDonald , A. Shekhter , B. J. Ramshaw , K. A. Modic , F. F. Balakirev , N. Harrison

The exciton insulator (EI) is a unique many-body ground state of condensed, spontaneously formed excitons (electron-hole pairs) in equilibrium, distinct from conventional band or Mott insulators. Originally proposed over half a century ago,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-26 Yande Que , Clara Rebanal , Liam Watson , Michael Fuhrer , Michał Papaj , Bent Weber , Iolanda Di Bernardo

An excitonic insulator (EI) phase is a consequence of collective many-body effects where an optical band gap is formed by the condensation of electron-hole pairs or excitons. We report pressure-dependent optical pump optical probe…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-28 Vikas Arora , Victor S Muthu , Arijit Sinha , Luminita Harnagea , U V Waghmare , A K Sood

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 fundamental idea of the excitonic insulator (EI) driven by electron-hole correlations in narrow-gap semiconductors or semimetals was originally proposed in the 1960s, and only theoretical studies had been advanced for a long time.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-25 Tatsuya Kaneko , Yukinori Ohta

An excitonic insulator (EI) is an unconventional quantum phase of matter in which excitons, bound pairs of electrons and holes, undergo Bose--Einstein condensation, forming a macroscopic coherent state. While its existence was first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Benjamin Remez , Nigel R. Cooper

We employ mean-field approximation to investigate the interplay between the nontrivial band topology and the formation of excitonic insulator (EI) in a one-dimensional chain of atomic $s-p$ orbitals in the presence of repulsive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Zahra Khatibi , Roya Ahemeh , Mehdi Kargarian

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

We study the electronic phase diagram of the excitonic insulator candidates Ta$_2$Ni(Se$_{1-x}$S$_x$)$_5$ [x=0, ... ,1] using Raman spectroscopy. Critical excitonic fluctuations are observed, that diminish with $x$ and ultimately shift to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-30 Pavel A. Volkov , Mai Ye , Himanshu Lohani , Irena Feldman , Amit Kanigel , Girsh Blumberg

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

Using exact numerical techniques we investigate the nature of excitonic (electron-hole) bound states and the development of exciton coherence in the one-dimensional half-filled extended Falicov-Kimball model. The ground-state phase diagram…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-15 S. Ejima , T. Kaneko , Y. Ohta , H. Fehske

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

Motivated by recent experiments, which give strong evidence for an excitonic insulating phase in $\rm TmSe_{0.45}Te_{0.55}$, we developed a scheme to quantitatively construct, for generic two-band models, the phase diagram of an excitonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Hülsen , F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske , K. Yonemitsu

The excitonic insulator (EI) is an exotic ground state of narrow-gap semiconductors and semimetals arising from spontaneous condensation of electron-hole pairs bound by attractive Coulomb interaction. Despite research on EIs dating back to…

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