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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…

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For moir\'e bilayer TMD superlattices, full-configuration-interaction (FCI) calculations are presented that take into account both the intra-moir\'e-quantum-dot (MQD) charge-carrier Coulombic interactions, as well as the crystal-field…

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Via the application of parallel magnetic field, we induce a single-layer to bilayer transition in two-dimensional electron systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells, and study the geometric resonance of composite fermions (CFs) with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 M. A. Mueed , D. Kamburov , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

We study the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 fermions in electromagnetic fields. Dirac form kinetic equation and Klein-Gordon form kinetic equation are obtained for the Wigner function, which are derived from the Dirac equation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Xin-Li Sheng

One of the most fundamental and yet elusive collective phases of an interacting electron system is the quantum Wigner crystal (WC), an ordered array of electrons expected to form when the electrons' Coulomb repulsion energy eclipses their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 H. Deng , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , L. W. Engel , M. Shayegan

A Wigner crystal, a regular electron lattice arising from strong correlation effects, is one of the earliest predicted collective electronic states. This many-body state exhibits quantum and classical phase transitions and has been proposed…

When the Coulomb interaction dominates over kinetic energy, electrons can crystallize into a Wigner crystal (WC). This paradigmatic correlated electronic phase has been realized in two-dimensional electron gases with parabolic band…

We study the sliding state of a two-dimensional Wigner crystal in a strong magnetic field and a random impurity potential. Using a high-velocity perturbation theory, we compute the nonlinear conductivity, various correlation functions, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Xuejun Zhu , P. B. Littlewood , A. J. Millis

Microwave spectroscopy within the Landau filling ($\nu$) range of the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) has revealed pinning mode resonances signifying Wigner solids (WSs) composed of quasi-particles or -holes. We study pinning modes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 A. T. Hatke , Yang Liu , L. W. Engel , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

The interplay between Coulomb interactions and kinetic energy underlies many exotic phases in condensed matter physics. In a two-dimensional electronic system, If Coulomb interaction dominates over kinetic energy, electrons condense into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Chenggang Yang , Jun Lu , Hongzhang Wang , Jian Zeng , Wendong Bian , Zhengshan Guo , Jiankun Li , Yulei Zhang , Junwei Luo , Tian Pei

A one--dimensional gas of electrons interacting with long--range Coulomb forces ($V(r) \approx 1/r$) is investigated. The excitation spectrum consists of separate collective charge and spin modes, with the charge excitation energies in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 H. J. Schulz

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 studied the structural, dynamical properties and melting of a quasi-one-dimensional system of charged particles, interacting through a screened Coulomb potential. The ground state energy was calculated and, depending on the density and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Piacente , I. V. Schweigert , J. J. Betouras , F. M. Peeters

Generalized Wigner crystals (GWC) on triangular moir\'e superlattices, formed from stacking two layers of transition metal chalcogenides, have been observed at multiple fractional fillings [Nature 587, 214 - 218 (2020), Nat. Phys. 17, 715 -…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-01 Aman Kumar , Cyprian Lewandowski , Hitesh J. Changlani

The crystalline or liquid character of the downward cusp states in N-electron parabolic quantum dots (QD's) at high magnetic fields is investigated using conditional probability distributions obtained from exact diagonalization. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We study a model of \textit{pinned} bilayer Wigner crystals (WC) and focus on the effects of interlayer coherence (IC) on pinning. We consider both a pseudospin ferromagnetic WC (FMWC) with IC and a pseudospin antiferromagnetic WC (AFMWC)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong P. Chen

Recent experiments have established that semiconductor-based moir\'e materials can host incompressible states at a series of fractional moir\'e-miniband fillings. These states have been identified as generalized Wigner crystals in which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-21 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Pawel Potasz , Allan H. MacDonald

We consider interacting electrons in a quantum wire in the case of a shallow confining potential and low electron density. In a certain range of densities, the electrons form a two-row (zigzag) Wigner crystal whose spin properties are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D. Klironomos , Julia S. Meyer , T. Hikihara , K. A. Matveev

We analyze the fermion density of the one-dimensional Hubbard model using bosonization and numerical DMRG calculations. For finite systems we find a relatively sharp crossover even for moderate short range interactions into a region with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-19 Stefan A. Soeffing , Michael Bortz , Imke Schneider , Alexander Struck , Michael Fleischhauer , Sebastian Eggert

We study fermions in two dimensions interacting via a long-ranged 1/r potential for small particle separations and a short-ranged 1/r^3 potential for larger separations in comparison to a length scale \xi. We compute the energy of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Benjamin M. Fregoso , C. A. R. Sá de Melo