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Exciton condensation and fractional charge in a bilayer two-dimensional electron gas adjacent to a superconductor film

Ningning Hao, Ping Zhang, Jian Li, Wei Zhang, Yupeng Wang

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.165317 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We study the exciton condensate (EC) in a bilayer two-dimensional electron gas adjacent to a type-II superconductor thin film with an array of pinned vortex lattices. By applying continuum low-energy theory and carrying numerical simulations of lattice model within mean-field approximation, we find that if the order parameter of EC has a vortex profile, there are exact zero modes and associated rational fractional charge for zero pseudospin potential (μ) and average chemical potential (h): μ=0 and h=0; while for μ≠0 and h=0, intervalley coupling splits the zero-energy levels, and the system exhibits irrational fractional axial charge.

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