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Wigner Crystals

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Physics and Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Inorganic Conductors

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Electrons in the presence of a uniform neutralizing background charge that fixes their density, should localize into a Wigner solid whenever the potential energy between localized electrons dominates the kinetic energy. Suggested in 1934 by Wigner[1], and undoubtedly firmly established from a theoretical point of view, the direct experimental observation of a Wigner crystal has been difficult. The only unambiguous observation was in a system of two-dimensional electrons trapped on the surface of liquid He [2].

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Littlewood, P.B., Millis, A.J., Zhu, X.J. (1996). Wigner Crystals. In: Schlenker, C., Dumas, J., Greenblatt, M., van Smaalen, S. (eds) Physics and Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Inorganic Conductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 354. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1149-2_10

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