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Coupled semiconductor quantum dots form artificial molecules where relevant energy scales controlling the interacting ground state can be easily tuned. By applying an external magnetic field it is possible to drive the system from a weak to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Massimo Rontani , Guido Goldoni , Elisa Molinari

The properties of ripplonic polarons in a multielectron bubble in liquid helium are investigated on the basis of a path-integral variational method. We find that the two-dimensional electron gas can form deep dimples in the helium surface,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Tempere , S. N. Klimin , I. F. Silvera , J. T. Devreese

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 energy band structure of excitons is studied in periodic potentials produced by the short-range interaction between the exciton and electrons of Wigner or Moir\'{e} lattices. Treating the exciton as a point-like dipole that interacts…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Dinh Van Tuan , Hanan Dery

Exciton polaritons based on atomically thin semiconductors are essential building blocks of quantum optoelectronic devices. Their properties are governed by an ultrafast and oscillatory energy transfer between their excitonic and photonic…

Rydberg excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide sensitive and non-destructive probes of physics in proximal sample layers that host correlated electronic states. In particular, electron or hole doping of the sample layer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Arthur Christianen , Anna M. Seiler , Alperen Tüğen , Ataç İmamoğlu

The two dimensional system of electrons in a high magnetic field offers an opportunity to investigate a phase transition from a quantum liquid into a Wigner solid. Recent experiments have revealed an incipient composite fermion liquid in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sudhansu S. Mandal , Michael R. Peterson , Jainendra K. Jain

We perform Hartree-Fock calculations to show that quantum dots (i.e. two dimensional systems of up to twenty interacting electrons in an external parabolic potential) undergo a gradual transition to a spin-polarized Wigner crystal with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 H. -M. Muller , S. E. Koonin

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

We consider a one-dimensional gas of half-solitons in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. We calculate the topological interaction potential between the half-solitons. Using a kinetic equation of the Vlasov-Boltzmann type, we model the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-20 H. Terças , D. D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

We report evidence that the metallic phase in high Tc cuprate superconductors results from an instability of the quasi 2D-electron gas at densities lower or larger than the critical density for the formation of a Wigner polaronic crystal.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-06-30 Antonio Bianconi , Mauro Missori

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

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

The optical spectra of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are dominated by tightly bound excitons and trions. In the low doping limit, trions are often described as three-body quasiparticles consisting of two electrons and one hole or vice…

Throughout the years, strongly correlated coherent states of excitons have been the subject of intense theoretical and experimental studies. This topic has recently boomed due to new emerging quantum materials such as van der Waals (vdW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Igor V. Bondarev , Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Yurii E. Lozovik

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

The optical responses of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by excitons. Being able to strongly interact with light and other materials excitations, excitons in semiconductors are prototypes for investigating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Xuke Jiang , Masoud Taleb , Florian Diekmann , Kai Rossnagel , Nahid Talebi

Interactions between quasiparticles are of fundamental importance and ultimately determine the macroscopic properties of quantum matter. A famous example is the phenomenon of superconductivity, which arises from attractive electron-electron…

We study the theory of itinerant-hole photoluminescence of two-dimensional electron systems in the regime of the magnetically induced Wigner crystal. We show that the exciton recombination transition develops structure related to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. R. Cooper

On examining the stability of a Wigner Crystal (WC) in an ionic dielectric, two competitive effects due to Polaron formation are found to be important: (i) the screening of the Coulomb forces which destabilizes the crystal, compensated by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Quemerais , S. Fratini