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Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer

  • Ruishi Qi,
  • Qize Li,
  • Jiahui Nie,
  • Ruichen Xia,
  • Haleem Kim,
  • Hyungbin Lim,
  • Jingxu Xie,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Michael F. Crommie,
  • Allan H. MacDonald,
  • Feng Wang

摘要

Macroscopic quantum coherence emerges when bosons condense into a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC)15. Excitons are a long-sought solid-state route to high-temperature BECs with strong interactions, electrical tunability and potentially multicomponent spinor order, but conclusive evidence for equilibrium condensation has remained elusive. Here we report evidence for two-component exciton BECs in MoSe2/hBN/WSe2 electron–hole bilayers69 by probing the spin–valley susceptibility of constituent electrons and holes. This heterostructure hosts equilibrium exciton fluids with four spin–valley flavours. Magneto-optical spectroscopy in a dilution refrigerator reveals three exciton condensate phases with distinct flavour polarizations. At zero magnetic field, the many-body ground state is a coherent superposition of two condensed intravalley exciton flavours. Under a magnetic field, the intravalley exciton condensate first switches to a two-component intervalley condensate through a first-order quantum phase transition at a weak critical field and then turns into a fully polarized single-component condensate at high fields. The condensate signatures form a dome in density–temperature space, persisting up to approximately 1.8 K. Our results establish van der Waals electron–hole bilayers as a versatile platform for strongly interacting, multicomponent exciton BECs.