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V. Apinyan

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arXiv2015

Excitonic phase transition in the extended three-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model

We study the excitonic phase transition in a system of the conduction band electrons and valence band holes described by the three-dimensional (3D) extended Falicov-Kimball (EFKM) model with the tunable Coulomb interaction $U$ between both species. By lowering the temperature, the electron-hole system may become unstable with respect to the formation of the excitons, i.e, electron-hole pairs at temperature $T=T_Δ$, exhibiting a gap $Δ$ in the particle excitation spectrum. To this end we implement the functional integral formulation of the EFKM, where the Coulomb interaction term is expressed in terms of U(1) phase variables conjugate to the local particle number, providing a useful representation of strongly correlated system. The effective action formalism allows us to formulate a problem in the phase-only action in the form of the quantum rotor model and to obtain analytical formula for the critical lines and other quantities of physical interest like charge gap, chemical potential and the correlation length.

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arXiv2015

Probing phase coherence via density of states for strongly correlated excitons

We present the calculation of the coherent spectral functions and density of states (DOS) for excitonic systems in the frame of the three dimensional extended Falicov-Kimball model. By using gauge-invariant U(1) transformation to the usual fermions, we represent the electron operator as a fermion attached to the U(1) phase-flux tube. The emergent bosonic gauge field, related to the phase variables is crucial for the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of excitons. Employing the path-integral formalism, we manipulate the bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom to obtain the effective actions related to fermionic and bosonic sectors. Considering the normal and anomalous excitonic Green functions, we calculate the spectral functions, which have the forms of convolutions in the reciprocal space between bosonic and fermionic counterparts. For the fermionic incoherent part of the DOS we have found the strong evidence of the hybridization-gap in DOS spectra. Furthermore, considering Bogoliubov coherence mechanism, we calculate the coherent DOS spectra. For the coherent normal fermionic DOS, there is no hybridization-gap found in the system due to strong coherence effets and phase stiffness. The similar behavior is observed also for the condensate part of the anomalous excitonic DOS spectra. We show that for small values of the Coulomb interaction, fermionic DOS exhibits a Bardeen-Cooper-Schriffer (BCS) -like double-peak structure. In the BEC region of the BCS-BEC crossover, the double-peak structure disappears totally for both: coherent and incoherent DOS spectra. We discuss also, temperature dependence of DOS functions.

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arXiv2015

Phase coherence and spectral functions in the two-dimensional excitonic systems

The nonlocal correlation mechanism between excitonic pairs is considered for a two dimensional exciton system. On the base of the unitary decomposition of the usual electron operator, we include the electron phase degrees of freedom into the problem of interacting excitons. Applying the path integral formalism, we treat the excitonic insulator state (EI) and the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of preformed excitonic pairs as two independent problems. For the BEC of excitons the phase field variables play a crucial role. We derive the expression of the local EI order parameter by integrating out the phase variables. Then, considering the zero temperature limit, we obtain the excitonic BEC transition probability function, by integrating out the fermions. We calculate the normal excitonic Green functions for the conduction and valence band electrons and we derive the excitonic spectral functions, both analytically and numerically. Different values of the Coulomb interaction parameter are considered.

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arXiv2015

The superfluid phase transition in two-dimensional excitonic systems

We study the superfluid phase transition in the two-dimensional (2D) excitonic system. Employing the extended Falicov-Kimball model (EFKM) and considering the local quantum correlations in the system composed of conduction band electrons and valence band holes we demonstrate the existence of the excitonic insulator (EI) state in the system. We show that at very low temperatures, the particle phase stiffness in the pure-2D excitonic system, governed by the non-local cross correlations, is responsible for the vortex-antivortex binding phase-field state, known as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) superfluid state. We demonstrate that the existence of excitonic insulator phase is a necessary prerequisite, leading to quasi-long-range order in the 2D excitonic system.

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arXiv2015

Excitonic gap formation in neutral bilayer structures

We consider the pairing between conduction band electrons, and the valence band holes in the neutral bilayer-type structures. By employing the bilayer Hubbard model, we show the possibility of the inter-plane exciton formation in the system without applied external field. The in-plane and inter-plane Coulomb interaction effects on the pairing mechanism are considered, and the role of the in-plane particle hopping asymmetry on the gap behavior is analyzed in the paper. We show that both Frenkel-type pairing channel and Wannier-Mott-type excitonic pairings are present in the considered system. We analyze also the structure of the chemical potential in the bilayer system. The temperature effects, and the tunable inter-plane electron hopping effects are discussed. For the Frenkel channel, we have shown a particular behavior of the chemical potential at the very low temperatures, which is related to the degenerated Frenkel-gap.

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arXiv2001

Microscopic theory of non local pair correlations in metallic F/S/F trilayers

We consider a microscopic theory of F/S/F trilayers with metallic or insulating ferromagnets. The trilayer with metallic ferromagnets is controlled by the formation of non local pair correlations among the two ferromagnets which do not exist with insulating ferromagnets. The difference between the insulating and ferromagnetic models can be understood from lowest order diagrams. Metallic ferromagnets are controlled by non local pair correlations and the superconducting gap is larger if the ferromagnetic electrodes have a parallel spin orientation. Insulating ferromagnets are controlled by pair breaking and the superconducting gap is smaller if the ferromagnetic electrodes have a parallel spin orientation. The same behavior is found in the presence of disorder in the microscopic phase variables and also in the presence of a partial spin polarization of the ferromagnets. The different behaviors of the metallic and insulating trilayers may be probed in experiments.

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