The researchers have found a new way to make and observe the elusive electron crystals.

The researchers have found a new way to make and observe the elusive electron crystals.

The image above portraits the structure of a two-dimensional Wigner crystal in a parabolic potential trap with 600 electrons. Triangles and squares mark positions of the topological defects. (Wikipedia)

The researchers have found a new way to make and observe the elusive electron crystals.

The researchers have found a new way to make and observe the elusive electron crystals. The electron crystals are first time made in 1979 when researchers used helium and that thing has been observed many times. But the helium-based structure is unstable.  It requires a low temperature and it can break very easily.  

But what if the electron trap can be created by using fullerene what makes it more stable. Stabilizing the electron crystal would make it a fascinating tool for many things. And that thing can be revolutionizing if the electron crystals can stabilize and if they are working at room temperature. 

 The electron crystal or Wigner Crystal (or Widger Cluster) (2)can use in extremely high accurate radars and new ultra-accurate nanotechnical radio telescopes for making the antenna, what resolution capacity is higher than any antenna before. The Wigner crystal can use in data storage, but there might also another use in that system

The Wigner Crystal is the 2D or 3D lattice structure, which can trap electrons. This thing can be extremely interesting when we are willing to create spin waves based transmitting- receive systems for MRI-technology. The electrons would put to spin in the lattice, where they can transmit extremely thin magnetic rays. 

That means that the Wigner crystal can be used to create extremely sharp MRI-images even from single cells in the human body if that system would install in the nanomachines. But the Wigner crystal can make something more. It can be used in extremely small radio transmitters, which can create the dream of the quantum computer closer than ever before. 

The electrons that are anchored in the lattice can use as the nano-size qubits. The data would be driven to those electrons, what is transmitting them to the receiver, what can also be the Wigner Crystal. The problem is that the spin waves must not be disturbed from the outside magnetic fields. So the researchers must protect the quantum computer against the outer radiation. 

The Wigner crystal can use in ultra-accurate radio antennas, but that structure can also store positrons. 

The fact is that the Wigner crystal-based antennas can also use to create extremely sharp radio telescopes. If the electrons or some other atoms are hovering above the lattice, that thing can create the nanotechnical compound eye for the radio transmitters and receivers. That thing can give the ultimate high resolutive accuracy for the radars and radio telescopes. 

One of the most interesting things is that Wigner crystal can also use to store positrons, which is making it a suitable structure for antimatter storage. The antielectrons can store in the Wigner crystal as well as normal electrons, and that is given the new visions in the space research and military solutions, which makes the horrifying antimatter ammunition or Tellers bomb true.

Sources: 

(1) https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-created-a-long-hypothesised-electron-crystal

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_crystal

Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_crystal