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Disorder-driven loss of crystalline coherence in two-dimensional electron solids: Quantum Hartree-Fock and classical molecular dynamics

  • Sankar Das Sarma
  • Haining Pan
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Abstract

We investigate the effects of quenched disorder on two-dimensional electron solids using Hartree-Fock theory and classical molecular dynamics. Increasing disorder weakens crystalline correlations, broadens the structure factor, and reduces the measured coherence length toward the pristine lattice spacing. This evolution is consistent with the Imry-Ma and Larkin picture: random pinning disrupts translational order on sufficiently long scales, and stronger disorder reduces the distance over which crystalline organization survives. Classical simulations further show that stronger pinning raises the temperature for particle rearrangement even after crystalline order has disappeared. Disorder thus suppresses structural coherence while stabilizing an amorphous solid against thermal rearrangement.

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@misc{sarma2026disorderdriven,
  title = {{Disorder-driven loss of crystalline coherence in two-dimensional electron solids: Quantum Hartree-Fock and classical molecular dynamics}},
  author = {Sankar Das Sarma and Haining Pan},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.06371},
  eprint = {2610.06371},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06371},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Disorder-driven loss of crystalline coherence in two-dimensional electron solids: Quantum Hartree-Fock and classical molecular dynamics
AU  - Sankar Das Sarma
AU  - Haining Pan
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/05
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.06371
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06371
AB  - We investigate the effects of quenched disorder on two-dimensional electron solids using Hartree-Fock theory and classical molecular dynamics. Increasing disorder weakens crystalline correlations, broadens the structure factor, and reduces the measured coherence length toward the pristine lattice spacing. This evolution is consistent with the Imry-Ma and Larkin picture: random pinning disrupts translational order on sufficiently long scales, and stronger disorder reduces the distance over which crystalline organization survives. Classical simulations further show that stronger pinning raises the temperature for particle rearrangement even after crystalline order has disappeared. Disorder thus suppresses structural coherence while stabilizing an amorphous solid against thermal rearrangement.
ER  -