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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 study the system consisted of two electrons in a quantum dot with a three-dimensional harmonic confinement potential under the effect of a magnetic field. Specifically, two different confinement conditions are considered, one isotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 A. M. Maniero , C. R. de Carvalho , F. V. Prudente , Ginette Jalbert

The coupling of weak light fields to Rydberg states of atoms under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) leads to the formation of Rydberg polaritons which are quasi-particles with tunable effective mass and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Johannes Otterbach , Matthias Moos , Dominik Muth , Michael Fleischhauer

Competition between liquid and solid states in two-dimensional electron system is an intriguing problem in condensed matter physics. We have investigated competing Wigner crystal and fractional quantum Hall ( FQH ) liquid phases in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-27 Manohar Kumar , Antti Laitinen , Pertti J. Hakonen

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

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 report on the properties of the two-dimensional electron gas in a dual-gate geometry, using quantum Monte Carlo methods to obtain aspects of the phase diagram as a function of electron density and gate distance. We identify the critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Agnes Valenti , Vladimir Calvera , Yubo Yang , Miguel A. Morales , Steven A. Kivelson , Ilya Esterlis , Shiwei Zhang

Transport measurements through a few-electron circular quantum dot in bilayer graphene display bunching of the conductance resonances in groups of four, eight and twelve. This is in accordance with the spin and valley degeneracies in…

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

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

In a density-imbalanced bilayer Wigner crystal, where the ratio of electron densities in separate layers deviates slightly from unity, defects spontaneously form in one or both layers in the ground state of the system. Due to quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-19 Zekun Zhuang , Ilya Esterlis

We calculate the atomic (spin) Wigner function for the single mode Dicke model in the regime of large number of two-level atoms. The dynamics of this quasi-probability function on the Bloch sphere allows us to visualize the consequences of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Sanz , K. Furuya

The yrast spectra (i.e. the lowest states for a given total angular momentum) of quantum dots in strong magnetic fields, are studied in terms of exact numerical diagonalization and analytic trial wave functions. We argue that certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Manninen , S. Viefers , M. Koskinen , S. M. Reimann

Energy spectra and spin configurations of a system of N=4 electrons in lateral double quantum dots (quantum dot Helium molecules) are investigated using exact diagonalization (EXD), as a function of interdot separation, applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Ying Li , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We study a system of electrons interacting through long--range Coulomb forces on a one--dimensional lattice, by means of a variational ansatz which is the strong--coupling counterpart of the Gutzwiller wave function. Our aim is to describe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Valenzuela , S. Fratini , D. Baeriswyl

We present a microscopic theory of a lateral quantum dot molecule in a radial magnetic field with a Greenberger- Horne- Zeilinger (GHZ) maximally entangled three particle groundstate. The quantum dot molecule consists of three quantum dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-05 Anand Sharma , Pawel Hawrylak

The strongly correlated phases of the homogeneous electron gas constitute the vocabulary of many-body condensed matter physics and find a natural realization in semiconductors. In this setting, recent neural-network variational Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Pierre-Antoine Graham , Filippo Gaggioli , Liang Fu

Interaction in a flat band is magnified due to the divergence in the density of states, which gives rise to a variety of many-body phenomena such as ferromagnetism and Wigner crystallization. Until now, however, most studies of the flat…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuanping Chen , Shenglong Xu , Yuee Xie , Chengyong Zhong , Congjun Wu , S. B. Zhang

An analysis of the Wigner function for identical particles is presented. Four situations have been considered. i) A scattering process between two indistinguishable electrons described by a minimum uncertainty wave packets showing the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Emiliano Cancellieri , Paolo Bordone , Carlo Jacoboni

We studied the structural, dynamical properties and melting of a quasi-one-dimensional system of charged particles, interacting through a screened Coulomb potential. The ground state energy was calculated and, depending on the density and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Piacente , I. V. Schweigert , J. J. Betouras , F. M. Peeters