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We study Wigner crystallization of electron systems in phosphorene quantum dots with confinement of an electrostatic origin with both circular and elongated geometry. The anisotropy of the effective mass allows for the formation of Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Tanmay Thakur , Bartłomiej Szafran

We study the collective states formed by two-dimensional electrons in Landau levels of index $n\ge 2$ near half-filling. By numerically solving the self-consistent Hartree-Fock (HF) equations for a set of oblique two-dimensional lattices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Ettouhami , C. B. Doiron , F. D. Klironomos , R. Côté , Alan T. Dorsey

When floating on a two-dimensional (2D) surface of superfluid $^{4}$He, electrons arrange themselves in 2D crystalline structure known as Wigner crystal. In channels, the boundaries interfere the crystalline order and in case of very narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 A. A. Vasylenko , V. R. Misko

We study properties of Wigner crystal in snaked nanochannels and show that they are characterized by a conducting sliding phase at low charge densities and an insulating pinned phase emerging above a certain critical charge density. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 O. V. Zhirov , D. L. Shepelyansky

Transition metal dichalcogenide-based moire superlattices exhibit very strong electron-electron correlations, thus giving rise to strongly correlated quantum phenomena such as generalized Wigner crystal states. Theoretical studies predict…

Clarifying electronic and vibronic properties at individual molecule level provides key insights to future chemistry, nanoelectronics, and quantum information technologies. The single electron tunneling spectroscopy has been used to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Shaoqing Du , Kenji Yoshida , Ya Zhang , Ikutaro Hamada , Kazuhiko Hirakawa

When the charge density is sufficiently low, interacting two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) would undergo a phase transition from homogeneous Fermi liquid to an electronic crystal state, known as Wigner crystal. Besides conventional 2DEG,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 Zhongqing Guo , Jianpeng Liu

The Wigner crystal of composite fermions is a strongly correlated state of complex emergent particles, and therefore its unambiguous detection would be of significant importance. Recent observation of optical resonances in the vicinity of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-13 Alex Archer , Jainendra K. Jain

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

Two dimensional (2D) crystal heterostructures are shown to possess a unique opportunity for novel THz nonlinear devices. In contrast to the oxide tunneling barrier, the uniformity of 2D insulators in the thickness control provides an ideal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 B. D. Kong , C. Zeng , D. K. Gaskill , K. L. Wang , K. W. Kim

We present a detailed theoretical analysis of the Wigner crystal states in confined semiconducting carbon nanotubes. We show by robust scaling arguments as well as by detailed semi-microscopic calculations that the effective exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 Lorinc Sarkany , Edina Szirmai , Catalin Pascu Moca , Leonid Glazman , Gergely Zarand

We report on Terahertz detection by inverted band structure HgTe-based Field Effect Transistor up to room temperature. At low temperature, we show that nonlinearities of the transistor channel allows for the observation of the quantum phase…

Understanding the dynamical evolution of large-scale moir\'e systems is crucial for connecting theoretical predictions with experimental observations. Here we develop a machine-learning-based workflow, integrating DeePMD and DeepH…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-27 Yifan Ke , Chuanjing Zeng , Xinming Qin , Wei-Lin Tu , Wei Hu , Jinglong Yang

We show that rotational angles of electrons moving in two dimensions (2D) in a perpendicular magnetic field can be synchronized by an external microwave field which frequency is close to the Larmor frequency. The synchronization eliminates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 A. D. Chepelianskii , A. S. Pikovsky , D. L. Shepelyansky

Wigner crystals are a paradigmatic form of interaction driven electronic order. A key open question is how Berry curvature and, more generally, quantum geometry reshape crystallization. The discovery of two-dimensional materials with…

Electrodynamics of superconductors is primarily the electrodynamics of the Meissner state, a state characterized by zero magnetic induction of a superconducting fraction of conduction electrons. Simultaneously, the Meissner state is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-25 Vladimir Kozhevnikov

In low-disorder, two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs), the fractional quantum Hall states at very small Landau level fillings ($\nu$) terminate in a Wigner solid (WS) phase, where electrons arrange themselves in a periodic array. The WS…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 P. T. Madathil , K. A. Villegas Rosales , Y. J. Chung , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , L. W. Engel , M. Shayegan

We propose to use local electromagnetic noise spectroscopy as a versatile and noninvasive tool to study Wigner crystal phases of strongly-interacting two-dimensional electronic systems. In-plane imaging of the local noise is predicted to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-01 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Ilya Esterlis , Alexander A. Zibrov , Mikhail D. Lukin , Thierry Giamarchi , Eugene Demler

Crystal phase semiconductor heterostructures allow for electron confinement without uncertainties caused by chemical intermixing found in material heterostructures and are candidates for next generation optoelectronics devices ranging from…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Joseph Sink , Craig Pryor

Electromagnetic field confinement is crucial for nanophotonic technologies, since it allows for enhancing light-matter interactions, thus enabling light manipulation in deep sub-wavelength scales. In the terahertz (THz) spectral range,…