Collapse of the Hartree term of the Coulomb interaction in a very dilute 2D electron gas

Autor: Karl Eberl, Alejandro R. Goñi, K. Syassen, S. Ernst
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Physical review letters. 72(25)
ISSN: 1079-7114
Popis: A novel many-body behavior of fundamental electron-electron interactions in very dilute 2D electron gases is revealed by inelastic light scattering in modulation-doped GaAs quantum wells. With increasing hydrostatic pressure the 2D electron density is continuously reduced down to values below 1\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}${10}^{10}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}2}$. A quantitative analysis of the energies of the elementary excitations of the electron gas shows the collapse of the Hartree term of the Coulomb interaction at densities of about 2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}${10}^{10}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}2}$, which is attributed to a metal-non-metal transition of the electronic system. Exchange and correlation effects, on the contrary, remain significant even at very low carrier densities.
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