English
Related papers

Related papers: Accurate ground-state energies of Wigner crystals …

200 papers

In this article we build a metric for a classical general relativistic electron model with QED corrections. We calculate the stress-energy tensor for the radiative corrections to the Coulomb potential in both the near-field and far-field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-10 Ron Lenk

We obtain new expressions for the Casimir energy between plates that are mimicked by the most general possible boundary conditions allowed by the principles of quantum field theory. This result enables to provide the quantum vacuum energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 J. M. Muñoz-Castañeda , M. Bordag , L. Santamaría-Sanz

We develop a method for computing exact one-loop quantum corrections to the energies of static classical backgrounds in renormalizable quantum field theories. We use a continuum density of states formalism to construct a regularized Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 N. Graham

The semi-classical Wigner-Kirkwood $\hbar$ expansion method is used to calculate shell corrections for spherical and deformed nuclei. The expansion is carried out up to fourth order in $\hbar$. A systematic study of Wigner-Kirkwood averaged…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 A. Bhagwat , X. Viñas , M. Centelles , P. Schuck , R. Wyss

The efficiency of different mass formulas derived from the liquid drop model including or not the curvature energy, the Wigner term and different powers of the relative neutron excess $I$ has been determined by a least square fitting…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Royer

A one--dimensional tight--binding model of electrons with long--range Coulomb interactions is studied in the limit where double site occupancy is forbidden and the Coulomb coupling strength $V$ is large with respect to the hopping amplitude…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Fratini , B. Valenzuela , D. Baeriswyl

The intrinsic and dynamic kinetic energies, and the potential energies of electron states in the hydrogen atom, were determined using the operator formalism in the Schrodinger nonrelativistic equation. Intrinsic energies were determined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Jacek Mroczkowski

The electronic excitations at the edges of a Hall bar not much wider than a few magnetic lengths are studied theoretically at filling $\nu = 2$. Both mean-field theory and Luttinger liquid theory techniques are employed for the case of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Rodriguez , M. J. Franco , L. Brey

We investigate the effect of mass anisotropy on the Wigner crystallization transition in a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas. The static and dynamical properties of a 2D Wigner crystal have been calculated for arbitrary 2D Bravais lattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xin Wan , R. N. Bhatt

In the previous paper I \cite{bhagwat20} we have shown that self-consistent Extended Thomas-Fermi (ETF) potentials and densities associated with a given finite-range interaction can be parametrized by generalized Fermi distributions. As a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 A. Bhagwat , M. Centelles , X. Viñas , P. Schuck

We generalize the linear discrete dimensional scaling approach for the repulsive Hubbard model to obtain a nonlinear scaling relation that yields accurate approximations to the ground-state energy in both two and three dimensions, as judged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Luana N. O. Vilela , Klaus Capelle , Luiz N. Oliveira , Vivaldo L. Campo

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

We present a general theory to treat periodic solids with quantum-chemistry methods. It relies on two main developments: 1) the modeling of a solid as a Clifford torus which is a torus that is both periodic and flat and 2) the introduction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Amer Alrakik , Gian Luigi Bendazzoli , Stefano Evangelisti , J. Arjan Berger

We present a variational study of both unpaired and spin-singlet paired states induced in a two-dimensional electron gas at low density by a perpendicular magnetic field. It is based on an improved circular-cell approximation which leads to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Polini , K. Moulopoulos , B. Davoudi , M. P. Tosi

We calculate the ground state energy of a massive scalar field in the background of a cosmic string of finite thickness (Gott-Hiscock metric). Using zeta functional regularization we discuss the renormalization and the relevant heat kernel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. R. Khusnutdinov , M. Bordag

We develop a formalism for the calculation of the ground state energy of a spinor field in the background of a cylindrically symmetric magnetic field. The energy is expressed in terms of the Jost function of the associated scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , K. Kirsten

The binding energies of deformed even-even nuclei have been analysed within the framework of a recently proposed microscopic-macroscopic model. We have used the semiclassical Wigner - Kirkwood $\hbar$ expansion up to fourth - order, instead…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Bhagwat , X. Viñas , M. Centelles , P. Schuck , R. Wyss

Recent experiments have established that semiconductor-based moir\'e materials can host incompressible states at a series of fractional moir\'e-miniband fillings. These states have been identified as generalized Wigner crystals in which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-21 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Pawel Potasz , Allan H. MacDonald

We propose a new ground state trial wavefunction for a two-dimensional Wigner crystal in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. The wavefunction includes Laughlin-Jastrow correlations between electron pairs, and may be interpreted as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hangmo Yi , H. A. Fertig

We demonstrate that unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory applied to electrons in a uniform potential has stable Wigner crystal solutions for $r_s \geq 1.44$ in two dimensions and $r_s \geq 4.5$ in three dimensions. The correlation energies of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-01 J. R. Trail , M. D. Towler , R. J. Needs