Two-Dimensional Coulomb Liquids and Solids

✍ Scribed by Professor Yuriy Monarkha, Professor Kimitoshi Kono (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 142
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This coherent monograph describes and explains quantum phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems with extremely strong internal interactions, which cannot be described by the conventional Fermi-liquid approach. The central physical objects considered are the 2D Coulomb liquid, of which the average Coulomb interaction energy per electron is much higher than the mean kinetic energy, and the Wigner solid. The text provides a new and comprehensive review of the remarkable properties of Coulomb liquids and solids formed on the free surface of liquid helium and other interfaces. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers in the fields of quantum liquids, electronic properties of 2D systems, and solid-state physics. It includes different levels of sophistication so as to be useful for both theorists and experimentalists. The presentation is largely self-contained, and also describes some instructive examples that will be of general interest to solid-state physicists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Two-Dimensional Interface Electron Systems....Pages 1-63
Strongly Correlated Coulomb Liquid....Pages 65-114
Quantum Transport Framework for Highly Correlated Electrons....Pages 115-148
Unconventional Hall Effect....Pages 149-182
Quantum Cyclotron Resonance....Pages 183-211
Interface Polarons....Pages 213-235
Wigner Solid. I. Dynamics on Rigid and Soft Interfaces....Pages 237-292
Wigner Solid. II. Transport Properties....Pages 293-333
Back Matter....Pages 335-350

✦ Subjects

Condensed Matter Physics; Nanotechnology; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics