Experimental Progress towards Probing the Ground State of an Electron-Hole Bilayer by Low-Temperature Transport.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Condensed Matter Physics Volume 2011, Article ID 727958, 22 pages doi:10.1155/2011/727958 Review Article Experimental Progress towards Probing the Ground State of an Electron-Hole Bilayer by Low-Temperature Transport K. Das Gupta,1 A. F. Croxall,1 J. Waldie,1 C. A. Nicoll,1 H. E. Beere,1 I. Farrer,1 D. A. Ritchie,1 and M. Pepper1, 2 1 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK 2 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College, London WC1E7JE, UK Correspondence should be addressed to K. Das Gupta, kd241@cam.ac.uk Received 27 May 2010; Accepted 27 October 2010 Academic Editor: Milica Milovanovic Copyright © 2011 K. Das Gupta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Recently, it has been possible to design independently contacted electron-hole bilayers (EHBLs) with carrier densities 5×1010 cm2 in each layer and a separation of 10–20 nm in a GaAs/AlGaAs system. In these EHBLs, the interlayer interaction can be stronger than the intralayer interactions. Theoretical works have indicated the possibility of a very rich phase diagram in EHBLs consisting of excitonic superfluid phases, charge density waves, and Wigner crystals. Experiments have revealed that the Coulomb drag on the hole layer shows strong nonmonotonic deviations from a ∼ T2 behaviour expected for Fermi-liquids at low temperatures. Simultaneously, an unexpected insulating behaviour in the single-layer resistances (at a highly “metallic” regime with kF l 500)