Electron Bubbles and the Structure of the Orbital Wavefunction
| Autor: | Nianpei Deng, Gabor Csathy, Dohyung Ro, Loren Pfeiffer, John Watson, Michael J. Manfra, Ken W. West |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Physics
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Condensed matter physics Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) Bubble Structure (category theory) FOS: Physical sciences 02 engineering and technology Landau quantization Electron 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons Liquid crystal 0103 physical sciences Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) Strongly correlated material 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Fermi gas Wave function |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1906.04035 |
| Popis: | Stripe-like and bubble-like patterns spontaneously form in numerous physical, chemical, and biological systems when competing long-range and short-range interactions banish uniformity. Stripe-like and the related nematic morphology are also under intense scrutiny in various strongly correlated electron systems. In contrast, the electronic bubble morphology is rare. Some of the most intriguing electron bubbles develop in the two-dimensional electron gas subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. However, in contrast to bubbles forming in classical systems such as the Turing activator-inhibitor reaction or Langmuir films, bubbles in electron gases owe their existence to elementary quantum mechanics: they are stabilized as wavefunctions of individual electrons overlap. Here we report a rich pattern of multi-electron bubble phases in a high Landau level and we conclude that this richness is due to the nodal structure of the orbital component of the electronic wavefunction. |
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