The onset of exciton condensation in a topological insulator thin film was recently predicted. We calculate the critical temperature for this transition, taking into account screening effects. Furthermore, we show that the proximity to this transition can be probed by measuring the Coulomb drag resistivity between the surfaces of the thin film as a function of temperature. This resistivity shows an upturn upon approaching the exciton-condensed state.
We examine the influence of remote bands on the tendency toward exciton condensation in a system consisting of two parallel graphene layers with negligible interlayer tunneling. We find that the remote bands can play a crucial supporting role, especially at low carrier densities, and comment on some challenges that arise in attempting quantitative estimates of condensation temperatures.
We present a unified Boltzmann transport theory for the drag resistivity ρ D in two-component systems close to a second-order phase transition. We find general expressions for ρ D in two and three spatial dimensions, for arbitrary population and mass imbalance, for particle-and holelike bands, and show how to incorporate, at the Gaussian level, the effect of fluctuations close to a phase transition. We find that the proximity to the phase transition enhances the drag resistivity upon approaching the critical temperature from above, and we qualitatively derive the temperature dependence of this enhancement for various cases. In addition, we present numerical results for two concrete experimental systems: (i) three-dimensional cold atomic Fermi gases close to a Stoner transition and (ii) two-dimensional spatially separated electron and hole systems in semiconductor double quantum wells.
We consider spin transport in a two-component ultracold Fermi gas with
attractive interspecies interactions close to the BCS pairing transition. In
particular, we consider the spin-transport relaxation rate and the
spin-diffusion constant. Upon approaching the transition, the scattering
amplitude is enhanced by pairing fluctuations. However, as the system
approaches the transition, the spectral weight for excitations close to the
Fermi level is decreased by the formation of a pseudogap. To study the
consequence of these two competing effects, we determine the spin-transport
relaxation rate and the spin-diffusion constant using both a Boltzmann approach
and a diagrammatic approach. The former ignores pseudogap physics and finite
lifetime effects. In the latter, we incorporate the full pseudogap physics and
lifetime effects, but we ignore vertex corrections, so that we effectively
calculate single-particle relaxation rates instead of transport relaxation
rates. We find that there is qualitative agreement between these two approaches
although the results for the transport coefficients differ quantitatively.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
We investigate the vortex-lattice structure for single-and two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of an optical lattice, which acts as a pinning potential for the vortices. The problem is considered in the mean-field quantum Hall regime, which is reached when the rotation frequency ⍀ of the condensate in a radially symmetric trap approaches the ͑radial͒ trapping frequency and the interactions between the atoms are weak. We determine the vortex-lattice phase diagram as a function of optical-lattice strength and geometry. In the limit of strong pinning the vortices are always pinned at the maxima of the optical-lattice potential, similar to the slow-rotation case. At intermediate pinning strength, however, due to the competition between interactions and pinning energy, a structure arises for the two-component case where the vortices are pinned on lines of minimal potential.
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