Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer

Data availability

Datasets that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors upon request.  Source data are provided with this paper.

Code availability

The custom code used for minimizing the interacting boson model Hamiltonian is available at https://github.com/ruishiqi/InteractingBosonModel .

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