Unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory of Wigner crystals

We demonstrate that unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory applied to electrons in a uniform potential has stable Wigner crystal solutions for $r_s>~1.44$ in two dimensions and $r_s>~4.5$ in three dimensions. The correlation energies of the Wigner crystal phases are considerably smaller than those of the fluid phases at the same density.