LOW-TEMPERATURE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF A ONE-DIMENSIONAL GENERALIZED WIGNER CRYSTAL

Abstract

The low-temperature thermodynamic properties of a one-dimensional generalized Wigner crystal at arbitrary values of electron density and arbitrary number of interacting electrons are studied. The modified transfer-matrixes method is applied. It is shown that increasing the number of interacting electrons leads to the appearance of more and more fine "stairs" in low-temperature dependence of chemical potential against electron density. An influence of the disorder in host-lattice site positions on thermodynamic characteristics of the system is considered. It is established that the disorder destroys the "stairs".