Spin-Polarization transition in the two dimensional electron gas

Abstract

We present a numerical study of magnetic phases of the 2D electron gas near freezing. The calculations are performed by diffusion Monte Carlo in the fixed node approximation. At variance with the 3D case we find no evidence for the stability of a partially polarized phase. With plane wave nodes in the trial function, the polarization transition takes place at Rs=20, whereas the best available estimates locate Wigner crystallization around Rs=35. Using an improved nodal structure, featuring optimized backflow correlations, we confirm the existence of a stability range for the polarized phase, although somewhat shrunk, at densities achievable nowadays in 2 dimensional hole gases in semiconductor heterostructures . The spin susceptibility of the unpolarized phase at the magnetic transition is approximately 30 times the Pauli susceptibility.

7 pages, 4 figures

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