Exchange Frequencies in the 2D Wigner Crystal
Abstract
Using path integral Monte Carlo we have calculated exchange frequencies as electrons undergo ring exchanges in a ``clean'' 2D Wigner crystal as a function of density. The results show agreement with WKB calculations at very low density, but show a more rapid increase with density near melting. Remarkably, the exchange Hamiltonian closely resembles the measured exchanges in 2D 3He. Using the resulting multispin exchange model we find the spin Hamiltonian for rs<=175+/-10 is a frustrated antiferromagnetic; its likely ground state is a spin liquid. For lower density the ground state will be ferromagnetic.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.870
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0008062
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvL..86..870B
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 870-873 (2001)