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We study a bilayer system hosting exotic many-body states of two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) in close proximity but isolated from one another by a thin barrier. One 2DES has low electron density and forms a Wigner solid (WS) at…

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Wigner-Mott insulating states represent a paradigmatic manifestation of strong electronic correlations, in which long-range Coulomb interactions drive spontaneous charge ordering and enable Mott localization at fractional electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Hongqin Xiao , Geng Li , Yuxuan He , Ke Zhu , Yuhan Ye , Yumeng Li , Lijing Huang , Pucen Xiong , Haitao Yang , Ziqiang Wang , Hong-Jun Gao

The properties of a system of charged particles on a 2D lattice, subject to an anisotropic Jahn-Teller-type interaction and 3D Coulomb repulsion are investigated. In the mean-field approximation without Coulomb interaction, the system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-19 T. Mertelj , V. V. Kabanov , D. Mihailovic

In this paper we consider an interacting particle system modeled as a system of $N$ stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions with a drift term including a confining potential acting on each particle, and an interaction…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matteo Ortisi

We present numerically exact energy estimates for two-dimensional electrons in a parabolic confinement. By application of an extension of the recently introduced many-body diffusion algorithm, the ground-state energies are simulated very…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Luczak , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese , L. F. Lemmens

We perform computational investigations of electrolyte-mediated interactions of charged colloidal particles confined within nanochannels. We investigate the role of discrete ion effects, valence, and electrolyte strength on colloid-wall…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 Inderbir S. Sidhu , Amalie L. Frischknecht , Paul J. Atzberger

The idea of confinement states that in certain systems constituent particles can be discerned only indirectly being bound by an interaction whose strength increases with increasing particle separation. Though the most famous example is the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-06 B. Lake , A. M. Tsvelik , S. Notbohm , D. A. Tennant , T. G. Perring , M. Reehuis , C. Sekar , G. Krabbes , B. Büchner

The strong Coulomb interaction in 2D materials facilitates the formation of tightly bound excitons and charge-ordered phases of matter. A prominent example is the formation of a crystalline phase from free charges due to mutual Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-16 Daniel Erkensten , Alexey Chernikov , Ermin Malic

Recent work investigating the interaction of magnetic islands with micro-turbulence has uncovered the striking observation of large scale vortex modes forming within the island structure [W.A. Hornsby {\it et al.}, Phys. Plasmas {\bf 17}…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 William Hornsby , Arthur Peeters , Mattia Siccinio , Emanuele Poli

The multiple-spin exchange frequencies of the bilayer Wigner crystal are determined by the semiclassical method, which is asymptotically exact in the limit of dilute electron densities. The evolution of the exchange frequencies with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-05 Ilya Esterlis , Dmitry Zverevich , Zekun Zhuang , Alex Levchenko

A new spinning particle with a definite sign of the energy is defined on spacelike hypersurfaces after a critical discussion of the standard spinning particles. They are the pseudoclassical basis of the positive energy $({1\over 2},0)$ [or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bigazzi , L. Lusanna

Living objects are able to consume chemical energy and process information independently from others. However, living objects can coordinate to form ordered groups such as schools of fish. This work considers these complex groups as living…

We study the ground state of a system of spinless electrons interacting through a screened Coulomb potential in a lattice ring. By using analytical arguments, we show that, when the effective interaction compares with the kinetic energy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-29 Massimo Ostilli , Carlo Presilla

The dynamics of interacting particles in orbital magnetic fields are notoriously difficult to study, as this physics is inherently connected to electronic correlations in two-dimensional systems, for which no straightforward theoretical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-27 Łukasz Iwanek , Marcin Mierzejewski , Adam S. Sajna

Among the various kinds of entangled states, the 'W state' plays an important role as its entanglement is maximally persistent and robust even under particle loss. Such states are central as a resource in quantum information processing and…

Semiconductor moir\'e superlattices provide a versatile platform to engineer new quantum solids composed of artificial atoms on moir\'e sites. Previous studies have mostly focused on the simplest correlated quantum solid - the Fermi-Hubbard…

An extended elastic eigenvector approach for adatom interactions is applied to model Nitrogen c(2x2) Atom islands on Cu(001). Oscillating interactions between adatom monomers or dimers are considered. Attractive pair interactions of adatoms…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-29 Wolfgang Kappus

Wigner crystals (WC) are electronic phases peculiar to low-density systems, particularly in the uniform electron gas. Since its introduction in the early twentieth century, this model has remained essential to many aspects of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-01 Fergus J. M. Rogers , Pierre-François Loos

We demonstrate that Widom's particle insertion technique provides a convenient and efficient method to determine the effective pair interaction between complex, composite soft-matter particles in the zero-density limit. By means of three…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-15 Bianca M. Mladek , Daan Frenkel

Statistical mechanics explains the properties of macroscopic phenomena based on the movements of microscopic particles such as atoms and molecules. Movements of microscopic particles can be represented by large-scale interacting systems. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Kenichi Bannai , Jun Koriki , Makiko Sasada , Hidetada Wachi , Shuji Yamamoto