Supersolidity in electron-hole bilayers with a large density imbalance

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Published 4 July 2011 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation M. M. Parish et al 2011 EPL 95 27007 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/95/27007

0295-5075/95/2/27007

Abstract

We consider an electron-hole bilayer in the limit of extreme density imbalance, where a single particle in one layer interacts attractively with a Fermi liquid in the other parallel layer. Using an appropriate variational wave function for the dressed exciton, we provide strong evidence for the existence of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase in electron-hole bilayers with a large density imbalance. Furthermore, within this unusual limit of FFLO, we find that a dilute gas of minority particles forms excitons that condense into a two-dimensional "supersolid".

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