Spin-orbit coupled depairing of a dipolar biexciton superfluid
arXiv:2007.06474 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.184503
Abstract
We consider quantum phase transitions in a system of bright dipolar excitons which can form bound pairs (dipolar biexcitons). We assume a narrow resonance in the interaction of excitons with opposite spins. At sufficiently large density a resonant exciton superfluid transforms into a superfluid of biexcitons. The transition may be either of the first or the second kind. The average relative momenta of excitons in the pairs being beyond the light cone, the transition should be accompanied by reduction of the photoluminescence intensity. Effective magnetic fields due to the long-range exchange splitting of non-radiative exciton states induce broadening of the biexciton resonance. The fields shift the position of the gap in the elementary excitation spectrum to a circle of degenerate minima in the k-space. Closing the new gap defines a second order phase transition into a mixture of counter-propagating plane-wave excitonic condensates polarized linearly in the direction perpendicular to their wavevectors. In the resonance energy vs density phase diagram the novel phase intervenes between the dark biexciton and radiative exciton superfluids. We conclude that formation of a BCS-like biexciton condensate induces correlated alignment of the effective magnetic fields and excitonic spins. We outline important differences of the emergent mechanism from the phenomenon of spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensation. We expect existence of analogous mechanisms in SO-coupled fermionic superfluids and superconductors.
7 pages, 3 figures
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