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The ground state energy and the lowest excitations of a two dimensional Wigner crystal in a perpendicular magnetic field with one and two electrons per cell is investigated. In case of two electrons per lattice site, the interaction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Taut

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

We study the development of electron-electron correlations in circular quantum dots as the density is decreased. We consider a wide range of both electron number, N<=20, and electron gas parameter, r_s<18, using the diffusion quantum Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amit Ghosal , A. D. Guclu , C. J. Umrigar , Denis Ullmo , Harold U. Baranger

Strongly interacting electrons in two-dimensional systems can spontaneously break translational symmetry, forming a periodic Wigner crystal. Although these crystals have been realized in several platforms, experimental studies of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 L. Wang , F. Menzel , F. Pichler , P. Knüppel , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Knap , T. Smoleński

The Wigner-crystal phase of two-dimensional electrons interacting via the Coulomb repulsion and subject to a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling is investigated. For low enough electronic densities the spin-orbit band splitting can be larger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 P. G. Silvestrov , O. Entin-Wohlman

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

We study scattering of charge and spin excitations in a system of interacting electrons in one dimension. At low densities electrons form a one-dimensional Wigner crystal. To first approximation the charge excitations are the phonons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 K. A. Matveev , A. V. Andreev , A. D. Klironomos

The behavior of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in extreme coupling limits are reasonably well-understood, but our understanding of intermediate region remains limited. Strongly interacting electrons crystalize into a solid phase known…

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 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 explore the theory of electrons confined by one dimensional power law potentials. We calculate the density profile in the high density electron gas, the low density Wigner crystal, and the intermediate regime. We extract the momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Erich J. Mueller

The one-- and two-- particle densities of up to four interacting electrons with spin, confined within a quasi one--dimensional ``quantum dot'' are calculated by numerical diagonalization. The transition from a dense homogeneous charge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Jauregui , W. Haeusler , B. Kramer , PTB Braunschweig

Wigner crystals are typically confined to ultralow temperatures where thermal motion is frozen out. Moir\'e superlattices in twisted two-dimensional materials have extended their stability to higher temperatures and densities, but rely on…

It is generally believed that a Wigner Crystal in single layer graphene can not form because the magnitudes of the Coulomb interaction and the kinetic energy scale similarly with decreasing electron density. However, this scaling argument…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 P. G. Silvestrov , P. Recher

The Wigner crystal, an ordered array of electrons, is one of the very first proposed many-body phases stabilized by the electron-electron interaction. This electron solid phase has been reported in ultra-clean two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Lili Zhao , Wenlu Lin , Yoon Jang Chung , Adbhut Gupta , Kirk W. Baldwin , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Yang Liu

The competition between Coulomb repulsion and kinetic energy in correlated systems can allow electrons to crystallize into Wigner solids. Despite researches across diverse two-dimensional Wigner platforms, the microscopic melting processes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chaofei Liu , Jianwang Zhou , Wenao Liao , Zeyu Jiang , Chao Zhang , Tingfei Guo , Tianyou Zhai , Wenhao Zhang , Ying-Shuang Fu , Qi-Kun Xue

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…

In spite of unscreened Coulomb interactions close to charge neutrality, relativistic massless electrons in graphene allegedly behave as noninteracting particles. A clue to this paradox is that both interaction and kinetic energies scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 K. A. Guerrero-Becerra , Massimo Rontani

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 study the ground state of a system of spinless electrons interacting through a screened Coulomb potential in a lattice ring. By using analytical arguments, we show that, when the effective interaction compares with the kinetic energy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-29 Massimo Ostilli , Carlo Presilla