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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University College London
Article title
Incipient Formation of an Electron Lattice in a Weakly Confined Quantum Wire
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Physical Review Letters
Article number
056804
Volume number
102
Issue number
5
First page of article
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ISSN of journal
0031-9007
Year of publication
2009
URL
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Number of additional authors
6
Additional information
Since the 1930’s there has been considerable interest in the Wigner Lattice in which the distribution of electrons arises from their mutual repulsion. Here we investigated the transition between a one and two dimensional system at very low values of carrier concentration. The ground state of one line is not stable and disappears to be replaced by 2 lines in parallel. This was the first observation of a distribution created by the electron repulsion, enabling development of theory, and was of considerable importance in the recent award of a Programme Grant, PI, M Pepper, EP/K004077/1, £6.57M.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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