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Semiconductor moir\'e superlattices comprise an array of artificial atoms and provide a highly tunable platform for exploring novel electronic phases. We introduce a theoretical framework for studying moir\'e quantum matter that treats…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Aidan P. Reddy , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

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

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

Moir\'e materials provide an ideal platform for exploring quantum phases of matter. However, solving the many-electron problem in moir\'e systems is challenging due to strong correlation effects. We introduce a powerful variational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-26 Di Luo , David D. Dai , Liang Fu

Bilayer quantum hall system with total filling factor 1 was studied in the regime of heavy layer imbalance in a recent transport experiment [Zeng2023, arXiv:2306.16995], with intriguing new findings. We demonstrate in this paper that 1) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Zhengfei Hu , Kun Yang

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

Motivated by recent developments on the fabrication and control of semiconductor-based quantum dot qubits, we theoretically study a finite system of tunnel-coupled quantum dots with the electrons interacting through the long-range Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 DinhDuy Vu , Sankar Das Sarma

Recent experiments have shown that, counterintuitively, applying a magnetic field to a Wigner crystal can induce quantum Hall effects. In this Letter, we use variational Monte Carlo to show that a magnetic field can melt zero-field Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu

Multielectron semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) provide a novel platform to study the role of Coulomb correlations in finite quantum systems and their impact on many-body energy spectra. An example is the formation of interaction-driven,…

The physics of an electron solid, held on a cryogenic liquid surface by a pressing electric field, is examined in a low-density regime that has not been explored before. We consider the effect of the pressing field in distorting the surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masudul Haque , Indranil Paul , Sergey Pankov

We consider a restricted three body problem, where two interacted particles are located in two dimensional (2D) plane and interact with the third one located in the parallel spatially separated plane. The system of such type can be formed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Shalva M. Tsiklauri

A sufficiently large perpendicular magnetic field quenches the kinetic (Fermi) energy of an interacting two-dimensional (2D) system of fermions, making them susceptible to the formation of a Wigner solid (WS) phase in which the charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Meng K. Ma , K. A. Villegas Rosales , H. Deng , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

In a certain regime of low carrier densities and strong correlations, electrons can crystallize into a periodic arrangement of charge known as Wigner crystal. Such phases are particularly interesting in one dimension (1D) as they display a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-01 Anuva Aishwarya , Sean Howard , Bikash Padhi , Lihai Wang , Sang-Wook Cheong , Philip W. Phillips , Vidya Madhavan

Using Path Integral Monte Carlo, we have calculated exchange frequencies as electrons undergo ring exchanges of 2, 3 and 4 electrons in a ``clean'' 3d Wigner crystal (bcc lattice) as a function of density. We find pair exchange dominates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ladir Candido , B. Bernu , D. M. Ceperley

Bilayer electron-hole systems, where carriers in one layer are electrons and carriers in the other are holes, have been actively investigated in recent years with the focus on Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons. This condensation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Alexander V. Balatsky , S. Das Sarma

We consider electrons in a quantum wire interacting via a long-range Coulomb potential screened by a nearby gate. We focus on the quantum phase transition from a strictly one-dimensional to a quasi-one-dimensional electron liquid, that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 Tobias Meng , Mehul Dixit , Markus Garst , Julia S. Meyer

A key concept proposed by Landau to explain superfluid liquid helium is the elementary excitation of quantum particles called rotons. The irregular arrangement of atoms in a liquid forms the aperiodic dispersion of rotons that played a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-11 Soobin Park , Minjae Huh , Chris Jozwiak , Eli Rotenberg , Aaron Bostwick , Keun Su Kim

Quantum particles on a lattice with competing long-range interactions are ubiquitous in physics. Transition metal oxides, layered molecular crystals and trapped ion arrays are a few examples out of many. In the strongly interacting regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Yang Xu , Song Liu , Daniel A Rhodes , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Veit Elser , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

(This is a substantially shortened version of the original abstract:) The Wigner crystal phase diagram of the bilayer systems have been studied using variational methods. Five crystal phases are obtained. As the layer spacing increases, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Narasimhan , Tin-Lun Ho

Entanglement underpins quantum information processing and computing, yet its experimental quantification in complex, many-body condensed matter systems remains a considerable challenge. Here, we reveal a highly entangled electronic phase…