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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

A floating Wigner crystal differs from the standard one by a spatial averaging over positions of the Wigner-crystal lattice. It has the same internal structure as the fixed crystal, but contrary to it, takes into account rotational and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Mikhailov , K. Ziegler

I review some of the properties of a Wigner crystal of electrons in two dimensional systems. The effect of disorder on such quantum crystals is discussed. The question of compressibility of such systems as obtained from capacitance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Giamarchi

The spatial Fourier spectrum of the electron density distribution in a finite 1D system and the distribution function of electrons over single-particle states are studied in detail to show that there are two universal features in their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-09 Yasha Gindikin , Vladimir A. Sablikov

We report the first experimental observation of a characteristic nonlinear threshold behavior from dc dynamical response as an evidence for a Wigner crystallization in high-purity GaAs 2D hole systems in zero magnetic field. The system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The charge density and pair correlation function of three interacting electrons confined within a two-dimensional disc-like hard wall quantum dot are calculated by full numerical diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. The formation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Akman , M. Tomak

We examine the charge and spin properties of an effective single-band model representing a moir\'e superlattice of the WSe$_{2}$/WS$_{2}$ heterobilayer. We focus on the $2/3$ electron filling, which refers to the formation of a generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-14 Andrzej Biborski , Michał Zegrodnik

We studied the dynamics of a quasi-one-dimensional chain-like system of charged particles at low temperature, interacting through a screened Coulomb potential in the presence of a local constriction. The response of the system when an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Piacente , F. M. Peeters

We consider a three dimensional Wigner crystal of electrons lying in a host ionic dielectric. Owing to their interaction with the lattice polarization, each localized electron forms a polaron. We study the collective excitations of such a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Fratini , P. Quemerais

The quantum Wigner crystal is a many-body state where Coulombic repulsion quenches the kinetic energy of electrons, causing them to crystallize into a lattice. Experimental realization of a quantum Wigner crystal at zero magnetic field has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Simon Munyan , Sina Ahadi , Binghao Guo , Arman Rashidi , Susanne Stemmer

Charge ordering is often found in the phase diagram of unconventional superconductors in close proximity to the superconducting state. This has led to the suggestion that fluctuations of charge order can mediate superconducting pairing.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-04 R. Torsten Clay , Beau A. Thompson

We present a controlled method for computing the exchange coupling in strongly correlated one-dimensional electron systems. It is based on the asymptotically exact relation between the exchange constant and the pair-correlation function of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael M. Fogler , Eugene Pivovarov

Charging of a clean two-dimensional island is studied in the regime of small concentration of electrons when they form the Wigner crystal. Two forms of electron-electron interaction potential are studied: the pure Coulomb interaction and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 A. A. Koulakov , B. I. Shklovskii

The interplay between long-range and local Coulomb repulsion in strongly interacting electron systems is explored through a two-dimensional Hubbard-Wigner model. An unconventional metallic state is found in which collective low-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-23 S. Fratini , J. Merino

We study the low-temperature transport properties of 1D quantum wires as the confinement strength V_conf and the carrier density n_1D are varied using a combination of split gates and a top gate in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 W. K. Hew , K. J. Thomas , M. Pepper , I. Farrer , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie

Coherent interconnects between gate-defined silicon quantum processing units are essential for scalable quantum computation and long-range entanglement. We argue that one-dimensional electron channels formed in the silicon quantum well of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Anantha S. Rao , Christopher David White , Sean R. Muleady , Anthony Sigillito , Michael J. Gullans

It is known that within the interacting electron model Hamiltonian for the one-dimensional 1/4-filled band, the singlet ground state is a Wigner crystal only if the nearest neighbor electron-electron repulsion is larger than a critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 R. T. Clay , R. P. Hardikar , S. Mazumdar

We study the Wigner crystallization on partially filled topological flat bands. We identify the Wigner crystals by analyzing the cartesian and angular Fourier transform of the pair correlation density of the many-body ground state obtained…

In recent experiments on conductance of one-dimensional (1D) channels in ultra-clean samples, a diverse set of plateaus were found at fractions of the quantum of conductance in zero magnetic field. We consider a discrete model of strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-18 Rose Davies , Igor V. Lerner , Igor V. Yurkevich

We investigate the multiparticle ring exchange couplings of the two-dimensional triangular Wigner crystal in external commensurate triangular and honeycomb potentials, using a semiclassical approach valid in the regime where Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Ilya Esterlis , Alex Levchenko