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We study Wigner crystallization of electron systems in phosphorene quantum dots with confinement of an electrostatic origin with both circular and elongated geometry. The anisotropy of the effective mass allows for the formation of Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Tanmay Thakur , Bartłomiej Szafran

We investigate the properties of many-electron systems in two-dimensional polygonal (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon) potential wells by using the density functional theory. The development of the ground state electronic structure as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Rasanen , H. Saarikoski , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

Using acoustic methods the complex high-frequency conductance of high-mobility $n$-GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures was determined in magnetic fields 12$\div$18~T. Based on the observed frequency and temperature dependences we conclude that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , Y. M. Galperin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We study the cohesive energy and elastic properties as well as normal modes of the Wigner and bubble crystals of the two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in higher Landau levels. Using a simple Hartree-Fock approach, we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Ettouhami , F. D. Klironomos , Alan T. Dorsey

Recent experiments have shown that, counterintuitively, applying a magnetic field to a Wigner crystal can induce quantum Hall effects. In this Letter, we use variational Monte Carlo to show that a magnetic field can melt zero-field Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu

The ground state energy of the 2-D Wigner crystal is determined as a function of the thickness of the electron layer and the crystal structure. The method of evaluating the exchange-correlation energy is tested using known results for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Jost , M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

Photoemission and tunneling spectroscopies measure the energies at which single electrons can be added to or removed from an electronic system. Features observed in such spectra have revealed electrons coupling to vibrational modes of ions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-09 Joonho Jang , Benjamin Hunt , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Kenneth W. West , Raymond C. Ashoori

Coulomb drag experiments can give us information about the interaction state of double-layer systems. Here, we demonstrate anomalous Coulomb drag behaviours in a two-dimensional electron-electron bilayer system constructed by stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Ning Wang , Siu-Tat Chui

When the charge density is sufficiently low, interacting two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) would undergo a phase transition from homogeneous Fermi liquid to an electronic crystal state, known as Wigner crystal. Besides conventional 2DEG,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 Zhongqing Guo , Jianpeng Liu

The jellium is a model, introduced by Wigner (1934), for a gas of electrons moving in a uniform neutralizing background of positive charge. Wigner suggested that the repulsion between electrons might lead to a broken translational symmetry.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Sabine Jansen , Paul Jung

The physics of an electron solid, held on a cryogenic liquid surface by a pressing electric field, is examined in a low-density regime that has not been explored before. We consider the effect of the pressing field in distorting the surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masudul Haque , Indranil Paul , Sergey Pankov

We report the observation of a new phenomenon of colossal magnetoresistance in a 40 nm wide GaAs quantum well in the presence of an external magnetic field applied parallel to the high-mobility 2D electron layer. In a strong magnetic field,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Xiaoqing Zhou , B. A. Piot , M. Bonin , L. W. Engel , S. Das Sarma , G. Gervais , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The ground state phase diagram of two-dimensional electrons in high magnetic field is studied by the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. The low energy excitations and pair correlation functions in Landau levels of N=0,1,2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Naokazu Shibata , Daijiro Yoshioka

Upon increasing the electron density in a quantum wire, the one-dimensional electron system undergoes a transition to a quasi-one-dimensional state. In the absence of interactions between electrons, this corresponds to filling up the second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julia S. Meyer , K. A. Matveev , A. I. Larkin

One of the most fascinating ground states of an interacting electron system is the so-called Wigner crystal where the electrons, in order to minimize their repulsive Coulomb energy, form an ordered array. Here we report measurements of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 H. Deng , L. W. Engel , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

The multiple-spin exchange frequencies of the bilayer Wigner crystal are determined by the semiclassical method, which is asymptotically exact in the limit of dilute electron densities. The evolution of the exchange frequencies with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-05 Ilya Esterlis , Dmitry Zverevich , Zekun Zhuang , Alex Levchenko

We develop a theory of nonlinear response to an electric field of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) placed in a classically strong magnetic field. The latter leads to a non-linear current-voltage characteristic at a relatively weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-25 M. G. Vavilov , I. L. Aleiner , L. I. Glazman

It is assumed that in a two-dimensional electron system with strong correlation (a Wigner liquid), appearance of some relatively slow-moving objects (clusters) composed of small number of electrons is possible. Such clusters may exist in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Batyev

Graphene, a single free-standing sheet of graphite with honeycomb lattice structure, is a semimetal with carriers that have linear dispersion. A consequence of this dispersion is the absence of Wigner crystallization in graphene, since the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. -H. Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

We present the first microscopic demonstration of a disorder-pinned hole Wigner crystal (WC), providing a natural explanation for the reentrant integer quantum Hall effect observed near $\nu=2/3$, as well as its analogs in fractional Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Jihang Zhu , Yi Huang , Xiaodong Hu , Di Xiao , Ting Cao