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Metal-insulator transition in a two-layer electron-hole system

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This paper discusses a quantum-mechanical metal-insulator transition that occurs in an anisotropic electron-hole system with the electrons and holes separated and confined to a double quantum well. The critical concentration n c of carriers in the system above which the excitonic (insulating) phase becomes an electron-hole (metallic) phase is investigated, along with its dependence on the distance between wells D.

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  1. Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142092, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia

    Yu. E. Lozovik & O. L. Berman

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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 1654–1656 (September 1997)

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Lozovik, Y.E., Berman, O.L. Metal-insulator transition in a two-layer electron-hole system. Phys. Solid State 39, 1476–1478 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1130102

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