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Biexciton crystal in a two-dimensional semiconductor heteropentalayer

This paper is written for the Special Issue in Honor of Emmanuel Rashba. We study the gas of indirect dipolar excitons created by an interband illumination of a pentalayer WSe$_2$/MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$/MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$. We show that two colinear indirect excitons bind into a linear biexciton with twice larger dipole moment. Two biexcitons with opposite dipole directions attract each other at large distances and repel each other at short distances. Therefore, biexcitons form a staggered crystal with anti-ferroelectric square lattice. The electrostatic energy of this crystal per biexciton has a minimum at the biexciton concentration $n =n_c=0.14d^{-2}$, where $d \sim 0.7$ nm is a single layer thickness. At small illumination intensity, biexcitons condense into sparse crystallites with $n = n_c$, where photoluminescence frequency is red shifted and independent on the light intensity. We also study a capacitor made of five identical semiconductor monolayers separated by hBN spacers where a critical voltage applied between layers 1, 3, 5, and 2, 4 abruptly creates a similar biexciton crystal. At this voltage, the differential capacitance diverges.