Abstract
The “phase diagram” of a two-dimensional mesoscopic system of bosons is investigated. An example of such a system is a system of indirect magnetoexcitons in semiconductor double quantum dots. Quantum Monte Carlo calculations show the existence of quantum orientational melting. At zero (quite low) temperature, as quantum fluctuations of the particles intensify, two quantum disordering phenomena occur with increasing de Boer parameter q. First, at q≈10−3 the system passes to a radially ordered but orientationally disordered state, where different shells of a cluster rotate relative to one another. Then at q≈0.16 a transition to a superfluid state occurs.
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, No. 11, 817–822 (10 December 1998)