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Motivated by twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), we study an extended Hubbard model with both on-site and off-site repulsive interactions, in which Mott insulating states with concomitant charge order occur at fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-10 Zhenhao Song , Urban F. P. Seifert , Leon Balents , Hong-Chen Jiang

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

We consider the crystallization of a two-dimensional electron system in a perpendicular magnetic field using composite boson theory. There are three possible states to consider: the Hall liquid, the Wigner crystal, and the Hall crystal (a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Julian May-Mann , Sayak Bhattacharjee , Srinivas Raghu

The existence of Wigner crystallization, one of the most significant hallmarks of strong electron correlations, has to date only been definitively observed in two-dimensional systems. In one-dimensional (1D) quantum wires Wigner crystals…

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

The crystallization of charge carriers, dubbed the Wigner crystal, is anticipated at low densities in clean two-dimensional electronic systems (2DES). While there has been extensive investigation across diverse platforms, probing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-26 Mingjie Zhang , Zhenyu Wang , Yifan Jiang , Yaotian Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Song Liu , Shiming Lei , Yongqing Li , Yang Xu

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

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…

Wigner crystals are prime candidates for the realization of regular electron lattices under minimal requirements on external control and electronics. However, several technical challenges have prevented their detailed experimental…

Wigner crystallization can be induced in a quantum dot by increasing the effective electron-electron interaction through a decrease of the electron density or by the application of a strong magnetic field. We show that the ground state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

Moir\'e superlattices of van der Waals materials, such as twisted graphene and transitional metal dichalcogenides, have recently emerged as a fascinating platform to study strongly correlated states in two dimensions, thanks to the strong…

The effect of strong quantizing magnetic field on the equation of state of matter at the outer crust region of magnetars is studied. The density of such matter is low enough compared to the matter density at the inner crust or outer core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nandini Nag , Sutapa Ghosh , Somenath Chakrabarty

We report the first experimental observation of a characteristic nonlinear threshold behavior from dc dynamical response as an evidence for a Wigner crystallization in high-purity GaAs 2D hole systems in zero magnetic field. The system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The emergence of moir\'e materials with flat bands provides a platform to systematically investigate and precisely control correlated electronic phases. Here, we report local electronic compressibility measurements of a twisted…

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

Recent experiments on the two dimensional electron gas in various semiconductor devices have revealed an unexpected metal-insulator transition and have challenged the previously held assumption that there is no such transition in two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-08 Sudip Chakravarty , Steven Kivelson , Chetan Nayak , Klaus Voelker

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

Electrons can organize themselves into charge-ordered states to minimize the effects of long-ranged Coulomb interactions. In the presence of a lattice, commensurability constraints lead to the emergence of incompressible Wigner-Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-31 Thomas G. Kiely , Debanjan Chowdhury

The magnetic phase diagram of the quarter-filled generalized Wigner lattice with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor hopping t_1 and t_2 is explored. We find a region at negative t_2 with fully saturated ferromagnetic ground states that we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-21 M. Daghofer , R. M. Noack , P. Horsch

Moir\'e heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides exhibit Mott-insulating behaviour both at half-filling as well as at fractional fillings, where electronic degrees of freedom form self-organized Wigner crystal states. An open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-31 Urban F. P. Seifert , Leon Balents