Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 92, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.165121
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- SRC
- NIST under the Nanoelectronic Research Initiative (NRI)
- SWAN
- Welch Foundation [F1473]
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We present a theory of bilayer two-dimensional electron systems that host a spatially indirect exciton condensate when in thermal equilibrium. Equilibrium bilayer exciton condensates (BXCs) are expected to form when two nearby semiconductor layers are electrically isolated, and when the conduction band of one layer is brought close to degeneracy with the valence band of a nearby layer by varying bias or gate voltages. BXCs are characterized by spontaneous interlayer phase coherence and counterflow superfluidity. The bilayer system we consider is composed of two transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers separated and surrounded by hexagonal boron nitride. We use mean-field theory and a bosonic weakly interacting exciton model to explore the BXC phase diagram, and time-dependent mean-field theory to address condensate collective mode spectra and quantum fluctuations. We find that a phase transition occurs between states containing one and two condensate components as the layer separation and the exciton density are varied, and derive simple approximate expressions for the exciton-exciton interaction strength which we show can be measured capacitively.
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