6 research outputs found
Tunneling images of a 2D electron system in a quantizing magnetic field
We have applied a scanning probe method, Subsurface Charge Accumulation (SCA)
imaging, to resolve the local structure of the interior of a semiconductor
two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in a tunneling geometry. Near magnetic
fields corresponding to integer Landau level filling, submicron scale spatial
structure in the out-of-phase component of the tunneling signal becomes
visible. In the images presented here, the structure repeats itself when the
filling factor is changed from nu=6 to nu=7. Therefore, we believe the images
reflect small modulations in the 2DES density caused by the disorder in the
sample.Comment: 2 pages, 2 color figures, submitted to LT23 proceeding
Imaging of Low Compressibility Strips in the Quantum Hall Liquid
Using Subsurface Charge Accumulation scanning microscopy we image strips of
low compressibility corresponding to several integer Quantum Hall filling
factors. We study in detail the strips at Landau level filling factors
2 and 4. The observed strips appear significantly wider than predicted by
theory. We present a model accounting for the discrepancy by considering a
disorder-induced nonzero density of states in the cyclotron gap.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Superconducting proximity effect in clean ferromagnetic layers
We investigate superconducting proximity effect in clean ferromagnetic layers
with rough boundaries. The subgap density of states is formed by Andreev bound
states at energies which depend on trajectory length and the ferromagnetic
exchange field. At energies above the gap, the spectrum is governed by resonant
scattering states. The resulting density of states, measurable by tunneling
spectroscopy, exhibits a rich structure, which allows to connect the
theoretical parameters from experiments.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures (included
Observation of the screening signature in the lateral photovoltage of electrons in the Quantum Hall regime
The lateral photovoltage generated in the plane of a two-dimensional electron
system (2DES) by a focused light spot, exhibits a fine-structure in the quantum
oscillations in a magnetic field near the Quantum Hall conductivity minima. A
double peak structure occurs near the minima of the longitudinal conductivity
oscillations. This is the characteristic signature of the interplay between
screening and Landau quantization.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Two-species percolation and Scaling theory of the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions
Recently, a simple non-interacting-electron model, combining local quantum
tunneling via quantum point contacts and global classical percolation, has been
introduced in order to describe the observed ``metal-insulator transition'' in
two dimensions [1]. Here, based upon that model, a two-species-percolation
scaling theory is introduced and compared to the experimental data. The two
species in this model are, on one hand, the ``metallic'' point contacts, whose
critical energy lies below the Fermi energy, and on the other hand, the
insulating quantum point contacts. It is shown that many features of the
experiments, such as the exponential dependence of the resistance on
temperature on the metallic side, the linear dependence of the exponent on
density, the scale of the critical resistance, the quenching of the
metallic phase by a parallel magnetic field and the non-monotonic dependence of
the critical density on a perpendicular magnetic field, can be naturally
explained by the model.
Moreover, details such as the nonmonotonic dependence of the resistance on
temperature or the inflection point of the resistance vs. parallel magnetic are
also a natural consequence of the theory. The calculated parallel field
dependence of the critical density agrees excellently with experiments, and is
used to deduce an experimental value of the confining energy in the vertical
direction. It is also shown that the resistance on the ``metallic'' side can
decrease with decreasing temperature by an arbitrary factor in the degenerate
regime ().Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure