One-dimensional electron lattice system with a long-range interelectron repulsion on a disordered host lattice

• Date: 2005
• Main Authors: Slutskin, A.A., Kovtun, H.A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України 2005
• Series: Физика низких температур
• Subjects: Низкоразмерные и неупорядоченные системы
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/121675
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: One-dimensional electron lattice system with a long-range interelectron repulsion on a disordered host lattice / A.A. Slutskin, H.A. Kovtun // Физика низких температур. — 2005. — Т. 31, № 7. — С. 784-795. — Бібліогр.: 19 назв. — англ.

We study what happens to generalized Wigner crystal, GWC (a regular structure formed by narrow-band electrons on a one-dimensional periodic host lattice), when there is a host lattice random distortion that does not break the host-lattice long-range order. We show that an arbitrarily weak distortion of the kind gives rise to soliton-like GWC defects (discrete solitons, DS) in the ground state, and thereby converts the ordered GWC into a new disordered macroscopic state — lattice Wigner glass (LWG). The ground-state DS concentration is found to be proportional to λ⁴ (λ is the typical host-lattice strain). We show that the low-temperature LWG thermodynamics and kinetics are fully described in DS terms. A new phenomenon of a super-slow logarithmic relaxation in the LWG is revealed. Its time turns out to be tens orders of magnitude greater than the microscopic ones. Analytical dependences of LWG thermodynamic quantities on temperature and λ are obtained for an arbitrary relationship between the relevant Coulomb energies and the electron bandwidth.