Universal Aspects of Coulomb Frustrated Phase Separation

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2004-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408066v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.056805

We study the consequences of Coulomb interactions on a system undergoing a putative first order phase transition. In two dimensions (2D), near the critical density, the system is universally unstable to the formation of new intermediate phases, which we call ``electronic microemulsion phases,'' which consist of an intermediate scale mixture of regions of the two competing phases. A correlary is that there can be no direct transition as a function of density from a 2D Wigner crystal to a uniform electron liquid. In 3D, %we find that if the strength of the Coulomb interactions exceeds a critical value, no phase separation occurs, while for weaker Coulomb strength, electronic microemulsions are inevitable. This tendency is considerably more pronounced in anisotropic (quasi 2D or quasi 1D) systems, where a devil's staircase of transitions is possible.

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