Wigner crystallization in mesoscopic 2D electron systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 3851-3854

  Filinov, A V ^a,b   Bonitz, M ^a   Lozovik, Yu E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

PATH INTEGRAL MONTE CARLO APPROACH; QUANTUM CONFINED ELECTRON; TWO DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM DOTS; WIGNER CRYSTALLIZATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4243385961     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3851     Document Type: Article

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