Electronic liquid crystalline phases in a spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional electron gas
Electronic liquid crystalline phases in a spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional electron gas
We argue that the ground state of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling realizes one of several possible liquid crystalline or Wigner crystalline phases in the low-density limit, even for short-range repulsive electron-electron interactions (which decay with distance with a power larger than 2). Depending on specifics of …