Flat band excitons and quantum metric

TL;DR

This paper explores how quantum metric influences the properties and stability of excitons and exciton condensates in flat band systems, revealing their potential for dissipationless supercurrents.

Contribution

It demonstrates the fundamental role of quantum metric in determining exciton effective mass, size, and superfluid stability in flat band materials.

Findings

Inverse exciton mass tensor is proportional to quantum metric tensor.

Flat band excitons have a finite size bounded by quantum metric.

Exciton condensate can support dissipationless counterflow supercurrent.

Abstract

We discuss the excitons in flat band systems. Quantum metric plays a central role in determining the properties of single exciton excitation as well as the exciton condensate. While the electrons and holes are extremely heavy in flat bands, the excitons (boundstate of an electron-hole pair) could be light and mobile. In particular, we show that the inverse of exciton's effective mass tensor is proportional to the quantum metric tensor. Meanwhile, the flat band excitons have a finite size, lower bounded by the trace of the quantum metric tensor. Given the properties of single exciton excitation, one can argue for the formation of exciton condensate. Because of the quantum metric, the exciton condensate can support dissipationless counterflow supercurrent, implying the stability of exciton condensate.