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The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is a fundamental model, which is drawing increasing interest because of recent advances in experimental and theoretical studies of 2D materials. Current understanding of the ground state of the 2DEG…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Conor Smith , Yixiao Chen , Ryan Levy , Yubo Yang , Miguel A. Morales , Shiwei Zhang

We study the phase transition in a system composed of dimers interacting with each other via a nearest-neighbor (NN) exchange $J$ and competing interactions taken from a truncated dipolar coupling. Each dimer occupies a link between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-06 Danh-Tai Hoang , Hung T. Diep

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

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 ground state of a two-dimensional ionic mixture composed of oppositely charged spheres is determined as a function of the size asymmetry by using a penalty method. The cascade of stable structures includes square, triangular and rhombic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-13 Lahcen Assoud , René Messina , Hartmut Löwen

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 the fate of the Wigner crystal state in a two dimensional system of massive Dirac electrons as the effective fine structure constant $\alpha$ is increased. In a Dirac system, larger $\alpha$ naively corresponds to stronger…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-06 Sandeep Joy , Brian Skinner

The behavior of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in extreme coupling limits are reasonably well-understood, but our understanding of intermediate region remains limited. Strongly interacting electrons crystalize into a solid phase known…

In this work we study a system of interacting fermions on a triangular lattice in the presence of an external magnetic field. We neglect spin and fix a density of one third, with one unit of magnetic flux per particle. The infinite density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-04 Gleb Fedorovich , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Atac Imamoglu , Ivan Amelio

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…

The moir\'e pattern induced by lattice mismatch in transition-metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers causes the formation of flat bands, where interactions dominate the kinetic energy. At fractional fillings of the flat valence band, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-07 Yuting Tan , Pak Ki Henry Tsang , Vladimir Dobrosavljević , Louk Rademaker

We demonstrate that the static structure factor, momentum distribution and density distribution provide clear signatures of the emergence of Wigner crystal for the fermionic dipolar gas with strongly repulsive dipole-dipole interactions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-06 Zhihao Xu , Shu Chen

Using many-body configuration interaction techniques we show that Wigner crystallization occurs at the zigzag edges of graphene at surprisingly high electronic densities up to $0.8$ $\mbox{nm}^{-1}$. In contrast with one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 A. D. Güçlü

The quantum-classical crossover from the Fermi liquid towards the Wigner solid is numerically revisited, considering small square lattice models where electrons interact via a Coulomb $U/r$ potential. The studies of models without disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Louis Pichard , Georgios Katomeris , Franck Selva

A planar array of identical charges at vanishing temperature forms a Wigner crystal with hexagonal symmetry. We take off one (reference) charge in a perpendicular direction, hold it fixed, and search for the ground state of the whole…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Moritz Antlanger , Martial Mazars , Ladislav Šamaj , Gerhard Kahl , Emmanuel Trizac

The competition between Coulomb repulsion and kinetic energy in correlated systems can allow electrons to crystallize into Wigner solids. Despite researches across diverse two-dimensional Wigner platforms, the microscopic melting processes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chaofei Liu , Jianwang Zhou , Wenao Liao , Zeyu Jiang , Chao Zhang , Tingfei Guo , Tianyou Zhai , Wenhao Zhang , Ying-Shuang Fu , Qi-Kun Xue

A system of confined charged electrons interacting via the long-range Coulomb force can form a Wigner crystal due to their mutual repulsion. This happens when the potential energy of the system dominates over its kinetic energy, i.e., at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 DinhDuy Vu , Sankar Das Sarma

A Wigner crystal structure of the electronic ground state is induced by strong Coulomb interactions at low temperature in clean or disordered two-dimensional (2d) samples. For fermions on a mesoscopic disordered 2d lattice, being closed to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Franck Selva , Dietmar Weinmann

In a density-imbalanced bilayer Wigner crystal, where the ratio of electron densities in separate layers deviates slightly from unity, defects spontaneously form in one or both layers in the ground state of the system. Due to quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-19 Zekun Zhuang , Ilya Esterlis

We study the phase ordering dynamics of a two dimensional model colloidal solid using molecular dynamics simulations. The colloid particles interact with each other with a Hamaker potential modified by the presence of equatorial "patches"…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-12-30 Chandana Mondal , Smarajit Karmakar , Surajit Sengupta