Observation of Preformed Electron-Hole Cooper Pairs

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2011-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/1111.4336v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Main article: 11 pages, 3 figures. Supplement: 10 pages, 4 figures

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Electrons and holes in a semiconductor form hydrogen-atom-like bound states, called excitons. At high electron-hole densities the attractive Coulomb force becomes screened and excitons can no longer exist. Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory predicts that at such high densities co-operative many-body effects can at low temperatures induce a bound state, an electron-hole Cooper pair, comparable to an electron-electron Cooper pair in a superconductor. Here we report the first observation of preformed electron-hole Cooper pairs in a semiconductor. By measuring stimulated emission from a dense electron-hole gas in ZnO, we have explored both the crossover from the electron-hole plasma to the preformed Cooper-pair regime, and the crossover from the exciton to the preformed Cooper-pair regime.

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