https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147801009
Wigner crystals: New realizations of an old idea
1 Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest, Hungary
2 Department of Physics, Roland Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
a e-mail: solyom.jeno@wigner.mta.hu
Published online: 25 September 2014
In this review, after a brief discussion of Wigner’s ideas about the localization of electrons due to Coulomb interaction in a low-density electron system with neutralizing background and the formation of a periodic array, we present the various possibilities to realize Wigner crystals: on the surface of liquid helium, in semiconductor heterostructures, in graphene, in 1D systems and the analogous crystalline states in dusty plasma or in the assembly of trapped ions.
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