Wigner crystal in snaked nanochannels
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2011-07-11 v1
Abstract
We study properties of Wigner crystal in snaked nanochannels and show that they are characterized by conducting sliding phase at low charge densities and insulating pinned phase emerging above a certain critical charge density. The transition between these phases has a devil's staircase structure typical for the Aubry transition in dynamical maps and the Frenkel-Kontorova model. We discuss implications of this phenomenon for charge density waves in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors and for supercapacitors in nanopore materials.
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@article{arxiv.1102.1277,
title = {Wigner crystal in snaked nanochannels},
author = {O. V. Zhirov and D. L. Shepelyansky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.1277},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figs, research at http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr