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In the last decade atomically thin 2D materials have emerged as a perfect platform for studying and tuning light-matter interaction and electronic properties in nanostructures. The optoelectronic properties in layered materials such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Roberto Rosati , Ioannis Paradisanos , Ermin Malic , Bernhard Urbaszek

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

Excitons are the neutral quasiparticles that form when Coulomb interactions create bound states between electrons and holes. Due to their bosonic nature, excitons are expected to condense and exhibit superfluidity at sufficiently low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Hong-Yi Xie , Pouyan Ghaemi , Matteo Mitrano , Bruno Uchoa

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

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…

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

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

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

Exciton-exciton interactions are key to understanding non-linear optical and transport phenomena in van der Waals heterobilayers, which emerged as versatile platforms to study correlated electronic states. We present a combined…

We exploit the influence of the Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes on the electron spin relaxation in a (110)-GaAs quantum well to unveil excitonic signatures within the many particle electron-hole system. The temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 S. Oertel , S. Kunz , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , J. Hübner , M. Oestreich

Exciton many-body interaction bear great implication for application in advanced photonic devices and quantum science and technology such as quantum computing, but the fundamental understanding about exciton many-body interaction is very…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-17 Yiling Yu , Guoqing Li , Linyou Cao

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

Large exciton-polariton optical nonlinearities present a key mechanism for photonics-based communication, ultimately in the quantum regime. Enhanced nonlinear response from various materials hosting excitons and allowing for their strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Anna M. Grudinina , Nina S. Voronova

The concept of modifying molecular dynamics in strongly coupled exciton-polariton systems is an emerging topic in photonics due to its potential to produce customized chemical systems with tailored photophysical properties. However, before…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-09 Bin Liu , Vinod M. Menon , Matthew Y. Sfeir

Excitons -- elementary excitations formed by bound electron-hole pairs -- govern the optical properties and excited-state dynamics of materials. In two-dimensions (2D), excitons are theoretically predicted to have a linear energy-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Luna Y. Liu , Steffi Y. Woo , Jinyuan Wu , Bowen Hou , Cong Su , Diana Y. Qiu

Optical spectroscopy of ultimately thin materials has significantly enhanced our understanding of collective excitations in low-dimensional semiconductors. This is particularly reflected by the rich physics of excitons in atomically thin…

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

We theoretically predict that a true bilayer exciton condensate,characterised by off-diagonal long range order and global phase coherence, can be created in one-dimensional solid state electron systems. The mechanism by which this happens…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-08 A. Kantian , D. S. L. Abergel

Bose-Fermi systems such as mixtures of electrons with excitons or exciton-polaritons are extensively discussed as candidates to host a variety of intriguing phenomena, including polaron formation, drag effects, supersolidity, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Andrey S. Plyashechnik , Alexey A. Sokolik , Nina S. Voronova , Yurii E. Lozovik

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…