Wigner crystal, published in Nature

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Harvard experimentalists discovered a coupled Wigner crystal in bilayer nanostructures, with important theory contribution from our Institute of Physics.

You Zhou, Jiho Sung, Elise Brutschea, Ilya Esterlis, Yao Wang, Giovanni Scuri, Ryan J. Gelly, Hoseok Heo, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Gergely Zaránd, Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Kim, Eugene Demler & Hongkun Park
Bilayer Wigner crystals in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructure
Nature 595, 48 (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03560-w