Excitonic instability and electric-field-induced phase transition towards a two-dimensional exciton condensate

Y. Naveh, B. Laikhtman

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Abstract

We present an “InAs-GaSb”based system in which the electric-field tunability of its 2D energy gap implies a transition towards a thermodynamically stable excitonic condensed phase. Detailed calculations show a 3 meV BCS-like gap appearing in a second-order phase transition with electric field. We find this transition to be very sharp, solely due to exchange interaction, and, so, the exciton binding energy is greatly renormalized even at small condensate densities. This density gradually increases with external field, thus enabling the direct probe of the Bose-Einstein to BCS crossover.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)900-903
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume77
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996

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