Electron-hole liquid in the hexaborides
Abstract
We investigate the energetics of the electron-hole liquid in stoichiometric divalent-metal hexaborides. The ground-state energy of an electron-hole plasma is calculated using the random-phase approximation and Hubbard schemes and compared to the binding energy of a single exciton. Intervalley scattering processes play an important role in increasing this binding energy and stabilizing a dilute Bose gas of excitons.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- July 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.62.1492
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/9910272
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhRvB..62.1492Z
- Keywords:
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- 71.35.Ee;
- 77.84.Bw;
- Electron-hole drops and electron-hole plasma;
- Elements oxides nitrides borides carbides chalcogenides etc.;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures