TY - JOUR
T1 - Stick-Slip Motion of the Wigner Solid on Liquid Helium
AU - Rees, David G.
AU - Beysengulov, Niyaz R.
AU - Lin, Juhn-Jong
AU - Kono, Kimitoshi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Physical Society.
PY - 2016/5/16
Y1 - 2016/5/16
N2 - We present time-resolved transport measurements of a Wigner solid (WS) on the surface of liquid helium confined in a micron-scale channel. At rest, the WS is "dressed" by a cloud of quantized capillary waves (ripplons). Under a driving force, we find that repeated WS-ripplon decoupling leads to stick-slip current oscillations, the frequency of which can be tuned by adjusting the temperature, pressing electric field, or electron density. The WS on liquid He is a promising system for the study of polaronlike decoupling dynamics.
AB - We present time-resolved transport measurements of a Wigner solid (WS) on the surface of liquid helium confined in a micron-scale channel. At rest, the WS is "dressed" by a cloud of quantized capillary waves (ripplons). Under a driving force, we find that repeated WS-ripplon decoupling leads to stick-slip current oscillations, the frequency of which can be tuned by adjusting the temperature, pressing electric field, or electron density. The WS on liquid He is a promising system for the study of polaronlike decoupling dynamics.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.206801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.206801
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84969864748
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 116
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 20
M1 - 206801
ER -