Attractive dipolar coupling between stacked exciton fluids

Hubert C, Baruchi Y, Mazuz-Harpaz Y, Cohen K, Biermann K, Lemeshko M, West K, Pfeiffer L, Rapaport R, Santos P. 2019. Attractive dipolar coupling between stacked exciton fluids. Physical Review X. 9(2), 021026.

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Hubert, Colin; Baruchi, Yifat; Mazuz-Harpaz, Yotam; Cohen, Kobi; Biermann, Klaus; Lemeshko, MikhailISTA ; West, Ken; Pfeiffer, Loren; Rapaport, Ronen; Santos, Paulo
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Dipolar coupling plays a fundamental role in the interaction between electrically or magnetically polarized species such as magnetic atoms and dipolar molecules in a gas or dipolar excitons in the solid state. Unlike Coulomb or contactlike interactions found in many atomic, molecular, and condensed-matter systems, this interaction is long-ranged and highly anisotropic, as it changes from repulsive to attractive depending on the relative positions and orientation of the dipoles. Because of this unique property, many exotic, symmetry-breaking collective states have been recently predicted for cold dipolar gases, but only a few have been experimentally detected and only in dilute atomic dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. Here, we report on the first observation of attractive dipolar coupling between excitonic dipoles using a new design of stacked semiconductor bilayers. We show that the presence of a dipolar exciton fluid in one bilayer modifies the spatial distribution and increases the binding energy of excitonic dipoles in a vertically remote layer. The binding energy changes are explained using a many-body polaron model describing the deformation of the exciton cloud due to its interaction with a remote dipolar exciton. The surprising nonmonotonic dependence on the cloud density indicates the important role of dipolar correlations, which is unique to dense, strongly interacting dipolar solid-state systems. Our concept provides a route for the realization of dipolar lattices with strong anisotropic interactions in semiconductor systems, which open the way for the observation of theoretically predicted new and exotic collective phases, as well as for engineering and sensing their collective excitations.
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2019-05-08
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Physical Review X
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American Physical Society
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9
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2
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021026
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Hubert C, Baruchi Y, Mazuz-Harpaz Y, et al. Attractive dipolar coupling between stacked exciton fluids. Physical Review X. 2019;9(2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021026
Hubert, C., Baruchi, Y., Mazuz-Harpaz, Y., Cohen, K., Biermann, K., Lemeshko, M., … Santos, P. (2019). Attractive dipolar coupling between stacked exciton fluids. Physical Review X. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021026
Hubert, Colin, Yifat Baruchi, Yotam Mazuz-Harpaz, Kobi Cohen, Klaus Biermann, Mikhail Lemeshko, Ken West, Loren Pfeiffer, Ronen Rapaport, and Paulo Santos. “Attractive Dipolar Coupling between Stacked Exciton Fluids.” Physical Review X. American Physical Society, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021026.
C. Hubert et al., “Attractive dipolar coupling between stacked exciton fluids,” Physical Review X, vol. 9, no. 2. American Physical Society, 2019.
Hubert C, Baruchi Y, Mazuz-Harpaz Y, Cohen K, Biermann K, Lemeshko M, West K, Pfeiffer L, Rapaport R, Santos P. 2019. Attractive dipolar coupling between stacked exciton fluids. Physical Review X. 9(2), 021026.
Hubert, Colin, et al. “Attractive Dipolar Coupling between Stacked Exciton Fluids.” Physical Review X, vol. 9, no. 2, 021026, American Physical Society, 2019, doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021026.
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