Superconductivity and superfluidity are macroscopic quantum phenomena that are observed at low temperatures. Bringing them to room temperatures is the Holy Grail in physics. One prospective system is a double layered semiconductor structure with spatially separated electrons and holes (holes are empty electronic states that can be treated as particles with positive charges). Attractive Coulomb interactions can bind them to become excitons (a hydrogen-like molecule formed by an electron and a hole) and drive them to become an excitonic superfluid.
After years of attempts, fully equilibrium excitonic superfluids have been recently discovered in novel bilayer structures formed by exotic monolayer materials. Uncovering peculiar properties of excitonic superfluids in these novel systems is the aim of this research topic.
Supervisor: Dr Dmitry Efimkin
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