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Electron-hole liquid in the hexaborides

M. E. Zhitomirsky, T. M. Rice

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/9910272

Abstract

We investigate the energetics of the electron-hole liquid in stoichiometric divalent metal hexaborides. The ground state energy of an electron-hole plasma is calculated using RPA and Hubbard schemes and compared to the binding energy of a single exciton. Intervalley scattering processes play an important role in increasing this binding energy and stabilizing a dilute Bose gas of excitons.

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