Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems

J. P. Eisenstein () and A. H. MacDonald
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J. P. Eisenstein: California Institute of Technology
A. H. MacDonald: University of Texas

Nature, 2004, vol. 432, issue 7018, 691-694

Abstract: Abstract An exciton is the particle-like entity that forms when an electron is bound to a positively charged ‘hole’. An ordered electronic state in which excitons condense into a single quantum state was proposed as a theoretical possibility many years ago. We review recent studies of semiconductor bilayer systems that provide clear evidence for this phenomenon and explain why exciton condensation in the quantum Hall regime, where these experiments were performed, is as likely to occur in electron–electron bilayers as in electron–hole bilayers. In current quantum Hall excitonic condensates, disorder induces mobile vortices that flow in response to a supercurrent and limit the extremely large bilayer counterflow conductivity.

Date: 2004
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