Charge Density Wave Ordering in Half Filled High Landau Levels

Abstract

We report on numerical studies of two-dimensional electron systems in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field, with a high Landau level index (N > 1) half filled by electrons. Strong and sharp peaks are found in the wave vector dependence of both static density susceptibility and equal-time density-density correlation function, in finite-size systems with up to twelve electrons. Qualitatively different from partially filled lowest (N=0) Landau level, these results are suggestive of a tendency toward charge density wave ordering in these systems. The ordering wave vector is found to decrease with increasing N.