Model for the macroscopically ordered state |
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The development of a Turing instability to a spatially modulated state in a photoexcited electron-hole
system is proposed as a novel signature of exciton Bose statistics.
Recent work shows that such an instability, driven
by kinetics of exciton formation, can result from stimulated processes that build up near quantum
degeneracy. The stability of an electron-hole interface which describes recently observed exciton rings is
analyzed. Interface instability occurs below a critical temperature, with a periodic 1D pattern developing
via a continuous (type II) transition, in a qualitative agreement with observations.
L.S. Levitov, B.D. Simons, and L.V. Butov. Pattern formation as a signature of quantum degeneracy in a cold exciton system, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176404 (2005) |