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Two—Dimensional Wigner Solid Versus Incompressible Quantum Liquid

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Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales

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Abstract

A unified many—body approach is shown to allow for studying the nature of two condensed phases in high magnetic fields: a 2D Wigner solid (WS) of the guiding centers of Coulomb interacting electrons and an incompressible quantum liquid (IQL) of Bose condensed charge—vortex composites. A competition between the two phases is found to give rise to a re—entrance behavior, if the mean number of magnetic flux quanta per electron exceeds a certain critical value.

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  1. Theoretische Physik, Universitaet des Saarlandes, 66041, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Guenther Meissner

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  1. Institutt for energiteknikk, POB 40, N-2007, Kjeller, Norway

    Tormod Riste (Director) (Director)

  2. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK

    David Sherrington (Co-director) (Co-director)

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Meissner, G. (1993). Two—Dimensional Wigner Solid Versus Incompressible Quantum Liquid. In: Riste, T., Sherrington, D. (eds) Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales. NATO ASI Series, vol 415. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1908-5_19

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