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Results of large-scale numerical simulations are reported on the Anderson localization in a two-dimensional square lattice tight-binding model with random flux. Localization lengths, fluctuations of the conductance, and the density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 A. Furusaki

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 investigate an off-diagonal quasicrystal featuring simultaneous off-diagonal and diagonal quasiperiodic modulations. By analyzing the fractal dimension, we map out the delocalization-localization phase diagram. We demonstrate that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Shan Suo , Ao Zhou , Yanting Chen , Shujie Cheng , Gao Xianlong

In the limit of low particle density, electrons confined to a quantum dot form strongly correlated states termed Wigner molecules, in which the Coulomb interaction causes the electrons to become highly localized in space. By using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. E. Creffield , G. Platero

Many-electron systems confined to a quasi-1D geometry by a cylindrical distribution of positive charge have been investigated by density functional computations in the unrestricted local spin density approximation. Our investigations have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 R. Cortes-Huerto M. Paternostro P. Ballone

The quantum crystal of electrons, predicted more than eighty years ago by Eugene Wigner, is still one of the most elusive states of matter. Here, we present experiments that observe the one-dimensional Wigner crystal directly, by imaging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Ilanit Shapir , Assaf Hamo , Sharon Pecker , Catalin Pascu Moca , Örs Legeza , Gergely Zarand , Shahal Ilani

In [arXiv:2207.03377] the first closed formula of a faithful entanglement measure applicable to realistic electron systems has been derived. In the present work, we build on this key achievement with the ultimate goal of guiding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Lexin Ding , Gesa Dünnweber , Christian Schilling

Electrons on helium form a unique two-dimensional electron system on the interface of liquid helium and vacuum. On liquid helium, trapped electrons can arrange into strongly correlated states known as Wigner molecules, which can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 G. Koolstra , Ge Yang , D. I. Schuster

We use Density Functional Theory to study interacting spinless electrons on a one-dimensional quantum ring in the density range where the system undergoes Wigner crystallization. The Wigner transition leads to a drastic ``collective''…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 Marc Siegmund , Markus Hofmann , Oleg Pankratov

We use supersymmetric localization to study probes of four dimensional Lagrangian N=2 superconformal field theories. We first derive a unique equation for the eigenvalue density of these theories. We observe that these theories have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Bartomeu Fiol , Blai Garolera , Genis Torrents

Spatial localization of the electrons of an atom or molecule is studied in models of non-relativistic matter coupled to quantized radiation. We give two definitions of the ionization threshold. One in terms of spectral data of cluster…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcel Griesemer

The entanglement between two arbitrary subsystems of random pure states is studied via properties of the density matrix's partial transpose, $\rho_{12}^{T_2}$. The density of states of $\rho_{12}^{T_2}$ is close to the semicircle law when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Udaysinh T. Bhosale , Steven Tomsovic , Arul Lakshminarayan

We show, using quasi-exact numerical simulations, that Anderson localization of one-dimensional particles in a disordered potential survives in the presence of attractive interaction between particles. The localization length of the…

The location of electrons governs phenomena ranging from chemical bonding and electric polarization to the topological classification of band insulators and the emergence of correlated states in quantum matter. While a prescription exists…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Haylen Gerhard , Yifan Wang , Alexander Cerjan , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

We have investigated the local magneto-transport in high-quality 2D electron systems at low carrier densities. The positive magneto-resistance in perpendicular magnetic field in the strongly insulating regime has been measured to evaluate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ghosh , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

We establish the complete spectral exponential, and the strong Hilbert-Schmidt dynamical localization for the one-dimensional multi-particle Anderson tight-binding model and for weakly interacting particles system. In other words, we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Trésor Ekanga

We study the exchange coupling in small Wigner crystals confined to one-dimensional space. In particular we concentrate on the simplest nontrivial case of two electrons in a box potential and calculate analytically the energy splitting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-30 Daniele Lagasco , Zoran Ristivojevic

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

ew-electron systems confined in quasi one-dimensional quantum dots are studied by the configuration interaction approach. We consider the parity symmetry of states forming Wigner molecules in large quantum dots and find that for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , S. Bednarek , T. Chwiej , J. Adamowski

Entanglement is a distinguishing feature of quantum many-body systems, and uncovering the entanglement structure for large particle numbers in quantum simulation experiments is a fundamental challenge in quantum information science. Here we…