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In high magnetic fields ($B$), two dimensional electron systems (2DESs) can form a number of phases in which interelectron repulsion plays the central role, since the kinetic energy is frozen out by Landau quantization. These phases include…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 A. T. Hatke , Yang Liu , B. A. Magill , B. H. Moon , L. W. Engel , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

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

In low-disorder, two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs), the fractional quantum Hall states at very small Landau level fillings ($\nu$) terminate in a Wigner solid (WS) phase, where electrons arrange themselves in a periodic array. The WS…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 P. T. Madathil , K. A. Villegas Rosales , Y. J. Chung , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , L. W. Engel , M. Shayegan

We have measured the magnetoresistance of a very low density and an extremely high quality two-dimensional hole system. With increasing magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the sample we observe the sequence of insulating, $\nu=1/3$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. A. Csathy , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We show that electrons in coupled quantum dots characterized by high aspect ratios undergo abrupt density rotations when the dots are biased into an asymmetric confinement configuration. Density rotations occur with electron transfer to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. -X. Zhang , D. V. Melnikov , J. -P. Leburton

We investigate the influence of confinement on the positional order of a quasi-1D electron system trapped on the surface of liquid helium. We find evidence that the melting of the Wigner solid (WS) depends on the confinement strength, as…

We have performed RF spectroscopy on very high quality two dimensional electron systems in the high magnetic field insulating phase, usually associated with a Wigner solid (WS) pinned by disorder. We have found two different resonances in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong P. Chen , R. M. Lewis , L. W. Engel , D. C. Tsui , P. D. Ye , Z. H. Wang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

At the low Landau filling factor $(\nu)$ termination of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) series, two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) exhibit an insulating phase that is understood as a form of pinned Wigner solid. Here we use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 A. T. Hatke , Y. Liu , L. W. Engel , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We report on an absolute measurement of the electronic spin polarization of the $\nu=1$ integer quantum Hall state. The spin polarization is extracted in the vicinity of $\nu=1$ (including at exactly $\nu=1$) via resistive NMR experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 B. A. Piot , W. Desrat , D. K. Maude , D. Kazazis , A. Cavanna , U. Gennser

We report combined magnetic susceptibility, dielectric constant, nuclear quadruple resonance (NQR) and zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on single crystals of multiferroics CuBr$_2$. High quality of the sample is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-09 Ruiqi Wang , Jiacheng Zheng , Tao Chen , Pengshuai Wang , Jinshan Zhang , Yi Cui , Chao Wang , Yuan Li , Sheng Xu , Feng Yuan , Weiqiang Yu

We introduce an attention-based fermionic neural network (FNN) to variationally solve the problem of two-dimensional Coulomb electron gas in magnetic fields, a canonical platform for fractional quantum Hall (FQH) liquids, Wigner crystals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-23 Yi Teng , David D. Dai , Liang Fu

This short review presents a few case studies of finite electron systems for which strong correlations play a dominant role. In simple metal clusters, the valence electrons determine stability and shape of the clusters. The ionic skeleton…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Manninen , S. M. Reimann

Recent magnetotransport measurements in low-disorder electron systems confined to GaAs/AlGaAs samples revealed that the $\nu = 1$ integer quantum Hall plateau is broken into three distinct regions. These three regions were associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Haoyun Huang , Waseem Hussain , S. A. Myers , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , G. A. Csáthy

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

The Wigner localization is an electron phase at low densities when the electrons are sharply localized around equilibrium positions. The simulation of the Wigner localization phenomenon requires careful treatment of the many-body…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Xue Quan , Huajie Chen

The melting temperature ($T_m$) of a solid is generally determined by the pressure applied to it, or indirectly by its density ($n$) through the equation of state. This remains true even for helium solids\cite{wilk:67}, where quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong P. Chen , G. Sambandamurthy , Z. H. Wang , R. M. Lewis , L. W. Engel , D. C. Tsui , P. D. Ye , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Two-dimensional electron gases in strong magnetic fields provide a canonical platform for realizing a variety of electronic ordering phenomena. Here we review the physics of one intriguing class of interaction-driven quantum Hall states:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-25 S. A. Parameswaran , B. E. Feldman

Collective modes of exotic quantum fluids reveal underlying physical mechanisms responsible for emergent complex quantum ground states. We observe unexpected new collective modes in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Lingjie Du , Ursula Wurstbauer , Ken W. West , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Saeed Fallahi , Geoff C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra , Aron Pinczuk

Wigner crystal, as the most fundamental exemplification where the many-body interaction forges the electrons into a solid, experiences an intriguing quantum melting where diverse intermediate phases are predicted to emerge near the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Zhongjie Wang , Meng Zhao , Lu Liu , Chunzheng Wang , Fang Yang , Hua Wu , Chunlei Gao

In this review, we describe the potentialities offered by the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique to explore at a microscopic level new quantum states of condensed matter induced by high magnetic fields. We focus on experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-30 Claude Berthier , Mladen Horvatić , Marc-Henri Julien , Hadrien Mayaffre , Steffen Krämer