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Electron-hole Liquid Condensation in Semiconductors

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Polarons and Excitons in Polar Semiconductors and Ionic Crystals

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A description is given of the basic energetics and thermodynamics of the condensation of excitons into electron-hole liquid in semiconductors. The ground state energetics is reviewed, and recent work on the thermodynamics of the condensation, especially those features which can be related simply to the basic energetics, is described. In particular, theoretical approaches to the condensation phase diagram and to its critical point are given, and simple scaling relations between the ground state properties and the critical parameters are developed.

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    Jozef T. Devreese (Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics) (Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics)

  3. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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Reinecke, T.L. (1984). Electron-hole Liquid Condensation in Semiconductors. In: Devreese, J.T., Peeters, F. (eds) Polarons and Excitons in Polar Semiconductors and Ionic Crystals. NATO ASI Series, vol 127. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2693-9_10

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