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We present a variational study of the 2D and 3D Wigner crystal phase of large polarons. The method generalizes that introduced by S. Fratini,P.\ Qu{\'{e}}merais [Mod. Phys. Lett. B {\bf 12} 1003 (1998)]. We take into account the Wigner…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-17 G. Rastelli , S. Ciuchi

We investigate the stability of persistent currents in superfluid fermionic gases confined to a ring geometry. Our study, conducted at zero temperature using time-dependent density functional theory, cover interaction regimes from strong…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-16 Klejdja Xhani , Andrea Barresi , Marek Tylutki , Gabriel Wlazłowski , Piotr Magierski

The insulator terminating the fractional quantum Hall series at low Landau level filling \nu is generally taken to be a pinned Wigner crystal (WC), and exhibits a microwave resonance that is interpreted as a WC pinning mode. Systematically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. D. Ye , L. W. Engel , D. C. Tsui , R. M. Lewis , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. West

We provide a quantitative determination of the crystallization onset for two electrons in a parabolic two-dimensional confinement. This system is shown to be well described by a roto-vibrational model, Wigner crystallization occurring when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra , Rashid G. Nazmitdinov

We consider a one-dimensional system comprising of $N$ run-and-tumble particles confined in a harmonic trap interacting via a repulsive inverse-square power-law interaction. We numerically compute the global density profile in the steady…

We explore the role of electron correlation in quasi one dimensional quantum wires as the range of the interaction potential is changed and their thickness is varied by performing exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations at various electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Shulenburger , M. Casula , G. Senatore , R. M. Martin

The strong Coulomb interaction in 2D materials facilitates the formation of tightly bound excitons and charge-ordered phases of matter. A prominent example is the formation of a crystalline phase from free charges due to mutual Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-16 Daniel Erkensten , Alexey Chernikov , Ermin Malic

The destruction of quasi-long range crystalline order as a consequence of strong disorder effects is shown to accompany the strict localization of all classical plasma modes of one-dimensional Wigner crystals at T=0. We construct a phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-06-02 Shimul Akhanjee , Joseph Rudnick

We study the behavior of persistent current of relativistic electrons on a one dimensional ring in presence of attractive/repulsive scattering potentials. In particular, we investigate the persistent current in accordance with the strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sumit Ghosh , Arijit Saha

Electrons can form an ordered solid crystal phase ascribed to the interplay between Coulomb repulsion and kinetic energy. Tuning these energy scales can drive a phase transition from electron solid to liquid, i.e. melting of Wigner crystal.…

The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is a fundamental model, which is drawing increasing interest because of recent advances in experimental and theoretical studies of 2D materials. Current understanding of the ground state of the 2DEG…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Conor Smith , Yixiao Chen , Ryan Levy , Yubo Yang , Miguel A. Morales , Shiwei Zhang

The physical origin is investigated of Robin boundary conditions for wave functions at an infinite reflecting wall. We consider both Schr\"odinger and phase-space quantum mechanics (a.k.a. deformation quantization), for this simple example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Belchev , M. A. Walton

We investigate the interplay of disorder and interaction in two-dimensional electron systems in a strong magnetic field, focusing on the transition between Wigner crystals and fractional quantum Hall liquids. We first study classical Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ke Huang , Sankar Das Sarma , Xiao Li

Using the properties of the transfer matrix of one-dimensional quantum mechanical systems, we derive a technique to exactly compute the persistent current across a hybrid normal-superconducting-mesoscopic ring pierced by a magnetic flux Phi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-16 Andrea Nava , Rosa Giuliano , Gabriele Campagnano , Domenico Giuliano

The properties of the strongly interacting edge states of two dimensional topological insulators in the presence of two particle backscattering are investigated. We find an anomalous behavior of the density-density correlation functions,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 N. Traverso Ziani , F. Crépin , B. Trauzettel

We study tunneling of weakly-interacting spinless electrons at zero temperature through a single delta-barrier in one-dimensional wires and rings of finite lengths. Our numerical calculations are based on the self-consistent Hartree-Fock…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrej Gendiar , Martin Mosko , Pavel Vagner , Radoslav Nemeth

In the ballistic regime we study both semiclassically and quantum mechanically the electron's dynamics in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plane. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Róbert Németh , Zoltán Kaufmann , József Cserti

To understand the role of electron correlation and disorder on persistent currents in isolated 1D rings threaded by magnetic flux $\phi$, we study the behavior of persistent currents in aperiodic and ordered binary alloy rings. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Santanu K. Maiti , J. Chowdhury , S. N. Karmakar

We apply the Wigner function formalism from quantum optics via two approaches, Wootters' discrete Wigner function and the generalized Wigner function, to detect quantum phase transitions in critical spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ systems. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Zakaria Mzaouali , Steve Campbell , Morad El Baz

We analyze fluctuations of persistent current (PC) produced by a charged quantum particle moving in a ring and interacting with a dissipative environment formed by diffusive electron gas. We demonstrate that in the presence of interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin