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arxiv: cond-mat/0204090 · v2 · submitted 2002-04-03 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.str-el

Correlation lengths of Wigner crystal order in two dimensional electron system at high magnetic field

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keywords resonancewignercorrelationcrystalelectronfieldhighlinear
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The insulator terminating the fractional quantum Hall series at low Landau level filling \nu is generally taken to be a pinned Wigner crystal (WC), and exhibits a microwave resonance that is interpreted as a WC pinning mode. Systematically studying the resonance in a high quality sample for carrier densities, n, between 1.8 and 5.7 x 10^{10} cm^-2, we find maxima in resonance peak frequency, f_pk, vs magnetic field, B. L, the domain size, or correlation length of Wigner crystalline order, is calculated from f_pk. For each n, L vs \nu tends at low \nu toward a straight line with intercept; the linear fit is accurate over as much as a factor of 5 range of \nu. We interpret the striking linear behavior as due to B compressing the electron wavefunctions, to alter the effective electron-impurity interaction.

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