title: Effects of fermion exchange on the polarization of exciton condensates.
abstract: Exchange interaction is responsible for the stability of elementary boson condensates with respect to momentum fragmentation. This remains true for composite bosons when single fermion exchanges are included but spin degrees of freedom are ignored. Here, we show that their inclusion can produce a spin fragmentation of the dark exciton condensate, i.e., an unpolarized condensate with an equal amount of spin (+2) and (-2) excitons not coupled to light. The composite boson many-body formalism allows us to predict that, for spatially indirect excitons, the condensate polarization switches from unpolarized to fully polarized when the distance between the layers confining electrons and holes increases. Importantly, the threshold distance for this switch lies in a regime fully accessible to experiments.
authors: Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Tour 22, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.
authors: Monique
authors: M
authors: Combescot
authors: Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, UPMC Paris 06, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France.|Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris, France.
authors: Roland
authors: R
authors: Combescot
authors: Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Tour 22, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.|ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, 3 Avenidad Carl Friedrich Gauss, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.
authors: Mathieu
authors: M
authors: Alloing
authors: Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Tour 22, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.|ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, 3 Avenidad Carl Friedrich Gauss, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.
authors: François
authors: F
authors: Dubin