An image of a triangular Wigner crystal taken by scanning tunneling microscope. Researchers have unveiled an elusive crystal that is formed purely from the repulsive nature of electrons. Each site ...

In some solid materials under specific conditions, mutual Coulomb interactions shape electrons into many-body correlated states, such as Wigner crystals, which are essentially solids made of electrons ...

Elusive electronic rotons, detected for the first time, reveal the formation of Wigner crystallites in a two-dimensional electron liquid For decades, researchers have explored how electrons behave in ...

Electrons are typically seen flitting around their atoms, but a team of physicists has now imaged the particles in a very different state: nestled together in a quantum phase called a Wigner crystal, ...

When electrons are cooled down, their energy reduces and they arrange in a stable-grid-like structure due to their mutual repulsion. This unique formation of electrons is called the Wigner crystal ...

Under the right circumstances, electrons can actually “freeze” into a bizarre solid form. Now, physicists at Berkeley Lab have created and taken the first ever direct images of this structure. At low ...

Three separate teams of researchers have created a crystal made entirely of electrons -- and one of them actually did it by accident. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

(Nanowerk News) Electrons – these infinitesimally small particles that are known to zip around atoms – continue to amaze scientists despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them.

Researchers have uncovered tiny flakes of Wigner crystals—unique structures formed entirely by electrons—by identifying unusual, aperiodic electronic signals. This breakthrough method reveals hidden ...

The video describes melting processes of an electron Wigner crystal into electron liquid phases. As the electron density (\nu, a measure of number of electrons in a magnetic field, is controlled by ...