Engineering superfluidity in electron-hole double layers

Sergio Conti, Giovanni Vignale, and Alan H. MacDonald
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Submission date: 06. Feb. 1998
Pages: 6
published in: Physical review / B, 57 (1998) 12, p. R6846-R6849 
DOI number (of the published article): 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.R6846
PACS-Numbers: 73.50.Dn
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Abstract:
We show that band-structure effects are likely to prevent superfluidity in semiconductor electron-hole double-layer systems. We suggest the possibility that superfluidity could be realized by the application of uniaxial pressure perpendicular to the electron and hole layers.