Observation of Bose-Einstein condensates of excitons in a bulk semiconductor

Bose-Einstein condensate of excitons is expected in photo-excited bulk semiconductors, but a direct experimental evidence has been lacking. Here the authors report the observation of a condensate of 1s paraexcitons in Cu2O using real-space mid-infrared absorption imaging realized in a dilution refri...

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Main Authors: Yusuke Morita, Kosuke Yoshioka, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33103-4