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Title: Is the MoSe2/WSe2 dipolar excitonic insulator an exciton superfluid
Plain: In two semiconductor layers separated by a thin insulator, electrons in one layer and holes in the other bind into long-lived excitons and make the system insulating. Drag experiments show these excitons move as units, but frictionless superflow has not been shown.
Precise: In MoSe2/hBN/WSe2 electron-hole double layers at equal densities $n_e = n_h$ of order $1e11 \text{ to } 1e12\,\mathrm{cm}^{-2}$, 2025 Coulomb-drag experiments found a drag ratio near 1 (perfect drag), showing transport by bound excitons. Determine whether the exciton fluid has a finite superfluid stiffness below a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless temperature $T_{\mathrm{BKT}}$, i.e. vanishing counterflow resistance or a Josephson-like interlayer response, and give $T_{\mathrm{BKT}}$ versus density. An answer is yes or no with measured $T_{\mathrm{BKT}}(n)$.
Settled by: A counterflow transport measurement showing resistance vanishing below a density-dependent $T_{\mathrm{BKT}}$, or a bound on stiffness excluding superfluidity down to the lowest accessible temperature.
Kind: well-posed
Answer type: yes-no
References: (empty)
Literature status: open
Status note: Two 2025 Science papers (Nguyen et al.; Qi et al.) reported perfect Coulomb drag, establishing exciton transport but not superfluidity.
Posed since: (empty)