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arxiv: cond-mat/9807235 · v2 · submitted 1998-07-16 · ❄️ cond-mat

Wigner crystallization and metal-insulator transition of two-dimensional holes in GaAs/AlGaAs at B=0

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We report the transport properties of a low disorder two-dimensional hole system (2DHS) in the GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, which has an unprecedentedly high peak mobility of $7\times 10^5cm^2/Vs$, with hole density of $4.8\times 10^9 cm^{-2}<p<3.72\times 10^{10}cm^{-2}$ in the temperature range of $50mK<T<1.3K$. From their T, p, and electric field dependences, we find that the metal-insulator transition in zero magnetic field in this exceptionally clean 2DHS occurs at $r_s=35.1\pm0.9$, which is in good agreement with the critical $r_s$ for Wigner crystallization ${r_s}^c=37\pm 5$, predicted by Tanatar and Ceperley for an ideally clean 2D system.

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