Charge-Density-Wave Ordering in Half-Filled High Landau Levels

Abstract

We report on numerical studies of two-dimensional electron systems in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field, with a high Landau level (index $N\ensuremath{\ge}2$) half filled by electrons. Strong and sharp peaks are found in the wave-vector dependence of both the static density susceptibility and the equal-time density-density correlation function, in finite-size systems with up to twelve electrons. Qualitatively different from the partially filled lowest ( $N\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}0$) Landau level, these results are suggestive of a tendency toward charge-density-wave ordering in these systems. The ordering wave vector is found to decrease with increasing $N$.