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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

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) 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

An excitonic insulator (EI) is a charge-neutral bosonic condensate of spontaneously formed electron-hole pairs. Exotic quantum phenomena such as dissipationless charge neutral transport and huge potential for optoelectronic applications…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Seokjin Bae , Arjun Raghavan , Irena Feldman , Amit Kanigel , Vidya Madhavan

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

The excitonic insulator (EI) is a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of excitons bound by electron-hole interaction in a solid, which could support high-temperature BEC transition. The material realization of EI has been elusive, which is…

Excitonic insulators (EI) arise from the formation of bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors and provide a solid-state platform for quantum many-boson physics. Strong exciton-exciton repulsion is expected to stabilize…

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

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…

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

Electron-hole pair excitations in semiconductors have been predicted to be able to give rise to a highly correlated many-body ground state, the excitonic insulator (EI). Under appropriate conditions below a critical temperature (Tc),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-18 Aidan Delgado , Carolin Dusold , Jingwei Jiang , Adam Cronin , Steven G. Louie , Felix R. Fischer

A new state of matter, an excitonic insulator (EI) state, was predicted to emerge from Bose-Einstein condensation of electron-hole pairs. Some candidate materials were suggested but it has been elusive to confirm its existence. Recent works…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Jin Mo Bok , Jungseek Hwang , Han-Yong Choi

The interplay between topology and correlations can generate a variety of quantum phases, many of which remain to be explored. Recent advances have identified monolayer WTe2 as a promising material for doing so in a highly tunable fashion.…

Spontaneous condensation of excitons is a long sought phenomenon analogous to the condensation of Cooper pairs in a superconductor. It is expected to occur in a semiconductor at thermodynamic equilibrium if the binding energy of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-25 S. Samaneh Ataei , Daniele Varsano , Elisa Molinari , Massimo Rontani

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

Exciton condensation indicating the spontaneous formation of electron-hole pair can cause the phase transition from a semimetal to an excitonic insulator by gap opening at the Fermi surface. While the idea of this excitonic insulator has…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-23 Hsiao-Yi Chen , Takuya Nomoto , Ryotaro Arita

Analogous to the charged electron-electron pair condensation in superconductors, an excitonic insulator (EI) represents Fermi surface instability due to spontaneous formation and condensation of charge-neutral electron-hole pair (exciton).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 R. Okuma , K. Yamagami , Y. Fujisawa , C. H. Hsu , Y. Obata , N. Tomoda , M. Dronova , K. Kuroda , H. Ishikawa , K. Kawaguchi , K. Aido , K. Kindo , Y. H. Chan , H. Lin , Y. Ihara , T. Kondo , Y. Okada

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 study the excitonic insulating (EI) phase in the two-band Hubbard models on the Penrose tiling. Performing the real-space mean-field calculations systematically, we obtain the ground state phase diagrams for the vertex and center models.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-14 Ken Inayoshi , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga
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