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Electron-electron interactions strongly affect the behavior of low-dimensional systems. In one dimension (1D), arbitrarily weak interactions qualitatively alter the ground state producing a Luttinger liquid (LL) which has now been observed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-04 Vikram V. Deshpande , Marc Bockrath

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

Electron interactions in undoped bilayer graphene lead to instability of the gapless state, `which-layer' symmetry breaking, and energy gap opening at the Dirac point. In contrast to single layer graphene, the bilayer system exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

Eugene Wigner predicted long ago that when the Coulomb interactions between electrons become much stronger than their kinetic energy, electrons crystallize into a closely packed lattice. A variety of two-dimensional systems have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Yen-Chen Tsui , Minhao He , Yuwen Hu , Ethan Lake , Taige Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani

Graphene, a single sheet of graphite, has attracted tremendous attention due to recent experiments which demonstrate that carriers in it are described by massless fermions with linear dispersion. In this note, we consider the possibility of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Hari P Dahal , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Kevin S. Bedell , Alexander V. Balatsky

We study the ground state structure of electronic-like bilayers, where different phases compete upon changing the inter-layer separation or particle density. New series representations with exceptional convergence properties are derived for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Samaj , E. Trizac

Explicitly Correlated Gaussian basis is used to calculate the energies and wave functions of one dimensional few-electron systems in confinement potentials created by external potentials or coupling to light in cavity. The appearance and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Chenhang Huang , Daniel Pitagora , Timothy Zaklama , Kalman Varga

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

A system of confined charged electrons interacting via the long-range Coulomb force can form a Wigner crystal due to their mutual repulsion. This happens when the potential energy of the system dominates over its kinetic energy, i.e., at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 DinhDuy Vu , Sankar Das Sarma

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 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

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 obtain the phase diagram of the double-exchange model at low electronic densities in the presence of electron-electron interactions. The single particle problem and its extension to low electronic densities, when a Wigner crystal of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitor M. Pereira , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto

By means of exact diagonalization we study the low-energy states of seven electrons in the lowest Landau level which are confined by a cylindric external potential modelling the rest of a macroscopic system and thus controlling the filling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 V. A. Kashurnikov , N. V. Prokof'ev , B. V. Svistunov , I. S. Tupitsyn

We demonstrate that the static structure factor, momentum distribution and density distribution provide clear signatures of the emergence of Wigner crystal for the fermionic dipolar gas with strongly repulsive dipole-dipole interactions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-06 Zhihao Xu , Shu Chen

When the Coulomb repulsion between electrons dominates over their kinetic energy, electrons in two dimensional systems were predicted to spontaneously break continuous translation symmetry and form a quantum crystal. Efforts to observe this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 T. Smoleński , P. E. Dolgirev , C. Kuhlenkamp , A. Popert , Y. Shimazaki , P. Back , M. Kroner , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , I. Esterlis , E. Demler , A. Imamoğlu

The strong Coulomb interaction in monolayer semiconductors represents a unique opportunity for the realization of Wigner crystals without external magnetic fields. In this work, we predict that the formation of monolayer Wigner crystals can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

The liquid-to-ordered phase transition in a bilayer system of fermions is studied within the context of a recently proposed density-functional theory [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 92}, 023614 (2015)]. In each two-dimensional layer, the fermions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-01 B. P. van Zyl , W. Ferguson

Bilayer graphene has been a subject of intense study in recent years. We extend a structural phase field crystal method to include an external potential from adjacent layer(s), which is generated by the corresponding phase field and changes…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-24 Kai Liu

Divergent density of states offers the unique opportunity to explore a wide variety of correlated electron physics. In the thinnest limit, this has been predicted and verified in the ultra-flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Anna M. Seiler , Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tianyi Xu , Fan Zhang , R. Thomas Weitz