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Two-dimensional Classical Wigner Crystal: Elliptical Confining Potential

Zhen-zhong Zhang, Kai Chang

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0609737

Abstract

We investigate theoretically the ground-state configurations of two-dimensional charged-particle systems with an elliptical hard-wall boundary and their vibrational eigenmodes. The systems exhibit a series of structural transitions, finally changing from a zigzag structure to a one-dimensional Coulomb chain, as the eccentricity of the elliptical hard-wall boundary is increased.

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