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We report the observation of TEMPERATURE-INDUCED transitions between insulator, metal, and quantum-Hall behaviors for transport coefficients in the very dilute high mobility two-dimensional electron system in silicon. We consider the…

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We report on a temperature-induced transition from a conventional semiconductor to a two-dimensional topological insulator investigated by means of magnetotransport experiments on HgTe/CdTe quantum well structures. At low temperatures, we…

Appropriately designed transition metal oxide heterostructures involving small band gap Mott insulators are argued to support spatially separated electron and hole gasses at equilibrium. Spatial separations and carrier densities favoring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-08-05 Andrew J. Millis , Darrell G. Schlom

We present experimental and theoretical studies of the magnetoresistance oscillations induced by resonance transitions of electrons between tunnel-coupled states in double quantum wells. The suppression of these oscillations with increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. C. Mamani , G. M. Gusev , T. E. Lamas , A. K. Bakarov , O. E. Raichev

To understand the essence of the exciton Mott transition in three-dimensional electron-hole systems, the metal-insulator transition is studied for a two-band Hubbard model in infinite dimensions with interactions of electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuh Tomio , Tetsuo Ogawa

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

At low temperatures, indirect excitons formed at the in-plane electron-hole interface in a coupled quantum well structure undergo a spontaneous transition into a spatially modulated state. We report on the control of the instability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sen Yang , L. V. Butov , B. D. Simons , K. L. Campman , A. C. Gossard

We study the superfluid-Mott-insulator transition of ultracold bosonic atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice with a double-well confining trap using the density-matrix renormalization group. At low density, the system behaves similarly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 H. C. Jiang , Z. Y. Weng , T. Xiang

We propose a ferromagnetic/ferroelectric hybrid double quantum well structure, and present an investigation of the Curie temperature (Tc) modulation in this quantum structure. The combined effects of applied electric fields and spontaneous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kim , H. Kim , J. W. Kim , S. J. Lee , T. W. Kang

Double layer systems where one layer has electrons and the holes are in a parallel layer a distance d away are expected to undergo excitonic condensation at low temperature. This excitonic condensate is traditionally described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-19 Christopher R. Jamell , Chang-hua Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

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

Many-component electron-hole plasma is considered in the Coupled Quantum Wells (CQW). It is found that the homogeneous state of the plasma is unstable if the carrier density is sufficiently small. The instability results in the breakdown…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 V. S. Babichenko , I. Ya. Polishchuk

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

Electrons and holes can spontaneously form excitons and condense in a semimetal or semiconductor, as predicted decades ago. This type of Bose condensation can happen at much higher temperatures in comparison with dilute atomic gases.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Qiang Gao , Yang-hao Chan , Yuzhe Wang , Haotian Zhang , Jinxu Pu , Shengtao Cui , Yichen Yang , Zhengtai Liu , Dawei Shen , Zhe Sun , Juan Jiang , Tai C. Chiang , Peng Chen

We study a mixture of two light spin-1/2 fermionic atoms and two heavy atoms %in a Mott state in a double well potential. Inelastic scattering processes between both atomic species excite the heavy atoms and renormalize the tunneling rate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-05-12 E. S. Annibale , O. Fialko , K. Ziegler

The metal-insulator transition (MIT) is an exceptional test bed for studying strong electron correlations in two dimensions in the presence of disorder. In the present study, it is found that in contrast to previous experiments on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-16 M. Yu. Melnikov , A. A. Shashkin , V. T. Dolgopolov , Amy Y. X. Zhu , S. V. Kravchenko , S. -H. Huang , C. W. Liu

The superfluid to Mott insulator transition in cavity polariton arrays is analyzed using the variational cluster approach, taking into account quantum fluctuations exactly on finite length scales. Phase diagrams in one and two dimensions…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-17 Markus Aichhorn , Martin Hohenadler , Charles Tahan , Peter B. Littlewood

For a system at a temperature of absolute zero, all thermal fluctuations are frozen out, while quantum fluctuations prevail. These microscopic quantum fluctuations can induce a macroscopic phase transition in the ground state of a many-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-27 Markus Greiner , Olaf Mandel , Tilman Esslinger , Theodor W Hänsch , Immanuel Bloch

Two effects are identified that affect the visibility of the Mott transition in an atomic gas in an optical lattice confined in a power-law potential. The transition can be made more pronounced by increasing the power law, but at the same…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Emil Lundh

The degree of ionization of a nondegenerate two-dimensional electron-hole plasma is calculated using the modified law of mass action, which takes into account all bound and unbound states in a screened Coulomb potential. Application of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Portnoi , I. Galbraith