Room-temperature superfluidity in graphene bilayers

Abstract

Because graphene is an atomically two-dimensional gapless semiconductor with nearly identical conduction and valence bands, graphene-based bilayers are attractive candidates for high-temperature electron-hole pair condensation. We present estimates which suggest that the Kosterlitz-Thouless temperatures of these two-dimensional counterflow superfluids can approach room temperature.

Keywords

GrapheneSuperfluidityGapless playbackCondensed matter physicsSemiconductorCondensationMaterials scienceThermal conductionValence (chemistry)PhysicsNanotechnologyQuantum mechanicsOptoelectronicsThermodynamics

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The University of Texas at Austin US

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Year: 2008
Type: article
Volume: 78
Issue: 12
Citations: 348
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                                    Hongki Min, 
                                
                                    Rafi Bistritzer, 
                                
                                    Jung-Jung Su
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2008). 
                            Room-temperature superfluidity in graphene bilayers. 
                            Physical Review B
                            , 78
                            (12)
                            .
                            https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.78.121401
                        

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DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.78.121401