English
Related papers

Related papers: Wigner Crystallization in mesoscopic 2D electron s…

200 papers

Using the path integral Monte Carlo technique we show that semiconductor quantum rings with up to six electrons exhibit a temperature, ring diameter, and particle number dependent transition between spin ordered and disordered Wigner…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Borrmann , Jens Harting

This short review presents a few case studies of finite electron systems for which strong correlations play a dominant role. In simple metal clusters, the valence electrons determine stability and shape of the clusters. The ionic skeleton…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Manninen , S. M. Reimann

We present here the first experimental study of Wigner islands formed by electrons floating over helium. Electrons are trapped electrostatically in a mesoscopic structure covered with a helium film, behaving as a quantum dot. By removing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 E. Rousseau , D. Ponarin , L. Hristakos , E. Varoquaux , O. Avenel , Yu. Mukharsky

We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on a two dimensional (2D) disordered lattice. For the case of two electrons the analytical estimates are presented showing a transition from localized to delocalized states in a way…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-27 Dima L. Shepelyansky , Pil Hun Song

As the electronic charge distribution in a wide quantum well is tuned from a single-layer through an interacting bilayer configuration to weakly-coupled parallel layers, we observe an insulating phase concurrently manifesting a dramatic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 H. C. Manoharan , Y. W. Suen , M. B. Santos , M. Shayegan

ew-electron systems confined in quasi one-dimensional quantum dots are studied by the configuration interaction approach. We consider the parity symmetry of states forming Wigner molecules in large quantum dots and find that for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , S. Bednarek , T. Chwiej , J. Adamowski

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

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

Using acoustic methods the complex high-frequency conductance of high-mobility $n$-GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures was determined in magnetic fields 12$\div$18~T. Based on the observed frequency and temperature dependences we conclude that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , Y. M. Galperin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We study an unconventional two-dimensional, two-component classical plasma on a sphere, with emphasis on detecting signatures of melting transitions. This system is relevant to Ising-type quantum Hall states, and is unconventional in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-14 Egil V. Herland , Egor Babaev , Parsa Bonderson , Victor Gurarie , Chetan Nayak , Leo Radzihovsky , Asle Sudbø

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

Using the Lindemann criterion, we analyzed the quantum and thermal melting of electronic/excitonic crystals recently discovered in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor moir\'e patterns. We show that the finite 2D screening of the atomically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Jiyong Zhou , Jianju Tang , Hongyi Yu

Charging of a clean two-dimensional island is studied in the regime of small concentration of electrons when they form the Wigner crystal. Two forms of electron-electron interaction potential are studied: the pure Coulomb interaction and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 A. A. Koulakov , B. I. Shklovskii

The stability of different phases of the three-dimensional non-relativistic electron gas is analyzed using stochastic methods. With decreasing density, we observe a {\it continuous} transition from the paramagnetic to the ferromagnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Ortiz , M. Harris , P. Ballone

We have investigated the behavior and stability of a Wigner crystal of rotating dipolar fermions in two dimensions. Using an ansatz wave function for the ground state of rotating two-dimensional dipolar fermions, which occupy only partially…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-16 Szu-Cheng Cheng , Shih-Da Jheng , T. F. Jiang

We present the first microscopic demonstration of a disorder-pinned hole Wigner crystal (WC), providing a natural explanation for the reentrant integer quantum Hall effect observed near $\nu=2/3$, as well as its analogs in fractional Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Jihang Zhu , Yi Huang , Xiaodong Hu , Di Xiao , Ting Cao

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 investigate the interplay of disorder and interaction in two-dimensional electron systems in a strong magnetic field, focusing on the transition between Wigner crystals and fractional quantum Hall liquids. We first study classical Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ke Huang , Sankar Das Sarma , Xiao Li

We study the exchange coupling in small Wigner crystals confined to one-dimensional space. In particular we concentrate on the simplest nontrivial case of two electrons in a box potential and calculate analytically the energy splitting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-30 Daniele Lagasco , Zoran Ristivojevic

Using Path Integral Monte Carlo we have calculated exchange frequencies as electrons undergo ring exchanges in a ``clean'' 2d Wigner crystal as a function of density. The results show agreement with WKB calculations at very low density, but…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Bernu , Ladir Candido , D. M. Ceperley