Moving Wigner glasses and smectics: Dynamics of disordered Wigner crystals

Citation
C. Reichhardt et al., Moving Wigner glasses and smectics: Dynamics of disordered Wigner crystals, PHYS REV L, 86(19), 2001, pp. 4354-4357
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
86
Issue
19
Year of publication
2001
Pages
4354 - 4357
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20010507)86:19<4354:MWGASD>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We examine the dynamics of driven classical Wigner solids interacting with quenched disorder from charged impurities. For strong disorder, the initial motion is plastic, in the form of crossing winding channels. For increasin g drive. there is a reordering into a moving Wigner smectic with the electr ons moving in separate 1D channels. These different dynamic phases can be r elated to the conduction noise and I(V) curves. For strong disorder, we sho w criticality in the voltage onset just above depinning. We obtain the dyna mic phase diagram for driven Wigner solids and demonstrate a finite thresho ld of force for transverse sliding, recently observed experimentally.