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We study the effects of weak disorder on a Wigner crystal in a magnetic field. We show that an elastic description of the pinned Wigner crystal provides an excellent framework to obtain most of the physically relevant observables. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Chitra , T. Giamarchi , P. Le Doussal

A candidate for the insulating phase of the 2D electron gas, seen in high mobility 2D MOSFETS and heterojunctions, is a Wigner crystal pinned by the incipient disorder. With this in view, we study the effect of collective pinning on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Chitra , T. Giamarchi

We numerically examine the depinning and sliding dynamics of a Wigner crystal in the presence of quenched disorder and a magnetic field. In the disorder-free limit, the Wigner crystal Hall angle is independent of crystal velocity, but when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We re-examine a long-standing problem of a finite-frequency conductivity of a weakly pinned two-dimensional classical Wigner crystal. In this system an inhomogeneously broadened absorption line (pinning mode) centered at disorder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Michael M. Fogler , David A. Huse

We report the first experimental observation of a characteristic nonlinear threshold behavior from dc dynamical response as an evidence for a Wigner crystallization in high-purity GaAs 2D hole systems in zero magnetic field. The system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We study the sliding state of a two-dimensional Wigner crystal in a strong magnetic field and a random impurity potential. Using a high-velocity perturbation theory, we compute the nonlinear conductivity, various correlation functions, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Xuejun Zhu , P. B. Littlewood , A. J. Millis

We calculate the magnetic moment (`persistent current') in a strongly correlated electron system --- a Wigner crystal --- in a one-dimensional ballistic ring. The flux- and temperature dependence of the persistent current is shown to be…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Krive , R. I. Shekhter , S. M. Girvin , M. Jonson

We studied the structural, dynamical properties and melting of a quasi-one-dimensional system of charged particles, interacting through a screened Coulomb potential. The ground state energy was calculated and, depending on the density and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Piacente , I. V. Schweigert , J. J. Betouras , F. M. Peeters

A microscopic model for analyzing the microwave absorption properties of a pinned, two-dimensional Wigner crystal in a strong perpendicular magnetic field is developed. The method focuses on excitations within the lowest Landau level, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 H. A. Fertig

The insulator terminating the fractional quantum Hall series at low Landau level filling \nu is generally taken to be a pinned Wigner crystal (WC), and exhibits a microwave resonance that is interpreted as a WC pinning mode. Systematically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. D. Ye , L. W. Engel , D. C. Tsui , R. M. Lewis , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. West

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

In clean two-dimensional (2D) systems, electrons are expected to self-organize into a regular lattice, a Wigner crystal, when their mutual Coulomb repulsion overwhelms kinetic energy. Understanding the Wigner crystal at zero magnetic field…

Motivated by puzzling results of recent experiments, we re-examine the response of a weakly pinned two-dimensional Wigner crystal to a uniform AC electric field. We confirm that at some disorder and magnetic field dependent frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-25 M. M. Fogler , David A. Huse

The two-dimensional Wigner crystals are studied with the variational quantum Monte Carlo method. The close relationship between the ground-state wavefunction and the collective excitations in the system is illustrated, and used to guide the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Xuejun Zhu , Steven G. Louie

We studied the dynamics of a quasi-one-dimensional chain-like system of charged particles at low temperature, interacting through a screened Coulomb potential in the presence of a local constriction. The response of the system when an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Piacente , F. M. Peeters

We measure a resonance in the frequency dependence of the real diagonal conductivity, Re[$\sigma_{xx}$], near integer filling factor, $\nu=3$. This resonance depends strongly on $\nu$, with peak frequency $f_{pk} \approx 1.7$ GHz at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 R. M. Lewis , Yong Chen , L. W. Engel , D. C. Tsui , P. D. Ye , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The physics of interacting quantum wires has attracted a lot of attention recently. When the density of electrons in the wire is very low, the strong repulsion between electrons leads to the formation of a Wigner crystal. We review the rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julia S. Meyer , K. A. Matveev

AB-stacked bilayer graphene has emerged as a fascinating yet simple platform for exploring macroscopic quantum phenomena of correlated electrons. Unexpectedly, a phase with negative dR/dT has recently been observed when a large electric…

We have measured magnetic field dependences of the attenuation and velocity of surface acoustic waves in a high-mobility $n$-GaAs/AlGaAs structure with a wide quantum well. The results allowed us to find the complex conductance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Y. M. Galperin

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
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