Perfectly Translating Lattices on a Cylinder
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We perform molecular dynamics simulations on an interacting electron gas confined to a cylindrical surface and subject to a radial magnetic field and the field of the positive background. In order to study the system at lowest energy states that still carry a current, initial configurations are obtained by a special quenching procedure. We observe the formation of a steady state in which the entire electron-lattice cycles with a common uniform velocity. Certain runs show an intermediate instability leading to lattice rearrangements. A Hall resistance can be defined and depends linearly on the magnetic field with an anomalous coefficient reflecting the manybody contributions peculiar to two dimensions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0103353,
title = {Perfectly Translating Lattices on a Cylinder},
author = {Vishal Mehra and Jayme De Luca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0103353},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 5 figures