Narrow Results

New numerical methods of the ground state and thermodynamic properties calculations of one-dimensional Generalized Wigner crystal on disordered host-lattice are proposed. Unlike computer simulation methods (for instance, Monte Carlo) these methods bring the exact results. Another attractive feature of the proposed methods is their speed: it is possible to study the systems with length about 10⁴–10⁵ nodes even on a personal computer. This is especially important in the case of weakly disordered systems and the long-range correlations. The gapless structure of low-energy excitation and breaking long-range correlations at arbitrary small disordering are established.

The low-temperature thermodynamics of a one-dimensional electron gas on a disordered lattice, which comes to existence when the inter-electron distances exceed noticeably the inter-site ones, has been studied. An efficient computer procedure, based on the presentation of the partition function as a product of random transfer-matrixes, has been developed for calculations of thermodynamic characteristics of the system under consideration. The lattice structures were varied from completely chaotic up to the strictly regular one. It has been established that for any degree of disorder the entropy and heat capacity of the system tend to zero linearly as the temperature is reduced. The conclusion about the gapless character of the elementary excitations spectrum has been made. An instability of one-dimensional electron gas on a disordered lattice has been revealed: under conditions of vanishingly small disordering of the lattice, the long-range order in the systems under consideration is broken by frustrations that are one-dimensional analogues of the frustrations in two- and three-dimensional spin glasses.