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  • Thermal and Quantum Melting...
    Ma, Meng K.; Villegas Rosales, K. A.; Deng, H.; Chung, Y. J.; Pfeiffer, L. N.; West, K. W.; Baldwin, K. W.; Winkler, R.; Shayegan, M.

    Physical review letters, 07/2020, Letnik: 125, Številka: 3
    Journal Article

    A sufficiently large perpendicular magnetic field quenches the kinetic (Fermi) energy of an interacting two-dimensional (2D) system of fermions, making them susceptible to the formation of a Wigner solid (WS) phase in which the charged carriers organize themselves in a periodic array in order to minimize their Coulomb repulsion energy. In low-disorder 2D electron systems confined to modulation-doped GaAs heterostructures, signatures of a magnetic-field-induced WS appear at low temperatures and very small Landau level filling factors ( ν ≃ 1 / 5 ). In dilute GaAs 2D hole systems, on the other hand, thanks to the larger hole effective mass and the ensuing Landau level mixing, the WS forms at relatively higher fillings ( ν ≃ 1 / 3 ). Here we report our measurements of the fundamental temperature vs filling phase diagram for the 2D holes' WS-liquid thermal melting. Moreover, via changing the 2D hole density, we also probe their Landau level mixing vs filling WS-liquid quantum melting phase diagram. We find our data to be in good agreement with the results of very recent calculations, although intriguing subtleties remain.