Coherent transport in a homojunction between an excitonic insulator and semimetal.
From the solution of a two-band model, we predict that the thermal and electrical transport across the junction of a semimetal and an excitonic insulator will exhibit high resistance behavior and low entropy production at low temperatures, distinct from a junction of a semimetal and a normal semiconductor. This phenomenon, ascribed to the dissipationless exciton flow which dominates over the charge transport, is based on the much longer length scale of the change of the effective interface potential for electron scattering due to the coherence of the condensate than in the normal state.
Rontani
Massimo
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INFM National Research Center on NanoStructures and BioSystems at Surfaces (S3), Via Campi 213/A, 41100 Modena, Italy.
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