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Ground state of a partially melted Wigner molecule

Zoltan Adam Nemeth, Jean-Louis Pichard

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0203477

Abstract

We consider three spinless fermions free to move on 2d square lattice with periodic boundary conditions and interacting via a U/r Coulomb repulsion. When the Coulomb energy to kinetic energy ratio rs is large, a rigid Wigner molecule is formed. As rs decreases, we show that melting proceeds via an intermediate regime where a floppy two particle molecule coexists with a partially delocalized particle. A simple ansatz is given to describe the ground state of this mesoscopic solid-liquid regime.

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