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Interlayer tunneling in counterflow experiments on the excitonic condensate in quantum Hall bilayers
The effect of tunneling on the transport properties of} quantum Hall double
layers in the regime of the excitonic condensate at total filling factor one is
studied in counterflow experiments. If the tunnel current is smaller than a
critical , tunneling is large and is effectively shorting the two layers.
For tunneling becomes negligible. Surprisingly, the transition
between the two tunneling regimes has only a minor impact on the features of
the filling-factor one state as observed in magneto-transport, but at currents
exceeding the resistance along the layers increases rapidly
Josephson-like tunnel resonance and large Coulomb drag in GaAs-based electron-hole bilayers
Bilayers consisting of two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole gases separated
by a 10 nm thick AlGaAs barrier are formed by charge accumulation in
epitaxially grown GaAs. Both vertical and lateral electric transport are
measured in the millikelvin temperature range. The conductivity between the
layers shows a sharp tunnel resonance at a density of , which is consistent with a Josephson-like enhanced tunnel
conductance. The tunnel resonance disappears with increasing densities and the
two 2D charge gases start to show 2D-Fermi-gas behavior. Interlayer
interactions persist causing a positive drag voltage that is very large at
small densities. The transition from the Josephson-like tunnel resonance to the
Fermi-gas behavior is interpreted as a phase transition from an exciton gas in
the Bose-Einstein-condensate state to a degenerate electron-hole Fermi gas
Extra Spin-Wave mode in Quantum Hall systems. Beyond the Skyrmion Limit
We report on the observation of a new spin mode in a quantum Hall system in
the vicinity of odd electron filling factors under experimental conditions
excluding the possibility of Skyrmion excitations. The new mode having
presumably zero energy at odd filling factors emerges at small deviations from
odd filling factors and couples to the spin-exciton. The existence of an extra
spin mode assumes a nontrivial magnetic order at partial fillings of Landau
levels surrounding quantum Hall ferromagnets other then the Skyrmion crystal.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Exciton condensate at a total filling factor of 1 in Corbino 2D electron bilayers
Magneto-transport and drag measurements on a quasi-Corbino 2D electron
bilayer at the systems total filling factor 1 (v_tot=1) reveal a drag voltage
that is equal in magnitude to the drive voltage as soon as the two layers begin
to form the expected v_tot=1 exciton condensate. The identity of both voltages
remains present even at elevated temperatures of 0.25 K. The conductance in the
current carrying layer vanishes only in the limit of strong coupling between
the two layers and at T->0 K which suggests the presence of an excitonic
circular current
Cyclotron spin-flip excitations in a \nu=1/3 quantum Hall ferromagnet
Inelastic light scattering spectroscopy around the \nu=1/3 filling discloses
a novel type of cyclotron spin-flip excitation in a quantum Hall system in
addition to the excitations previously studied. The excitation energy of the
observed mode follows qualitatively the degree of electron spin polarization,
reaching a maximum value at \nu=1/3 and thus characterizing it as a \nu=1/3
ferromagnet eigenmode. Its absolute energy substantially exceeds the
theoretical prediction obtained within the renowned single-mode approximation.
Double-exciton corrections neglected utilizing the single-mode approach are
evaluated within the framework of the excitonic representation and are inferred
to be responsible for the observed effect.Comment: 4 pages,3 figures, submitted to PR
Spin effects in the magneto-drag between double quantum wells
We report on the selectivity to spin in a drag measurement. This selectivity
to spin causes deep minima in the magneto-drag at odd fillingfactors for
matched electron densities at magnetic fields and temperatures at which the
bare spin energy is only one tenth of the temperature. For mismatched densities
the selectivity causes a novel 1/B-periodic oscillation, such that negative
minima in the drag are observed whenever the majority spins at the Fermi
energies of the two-dimensional electron gasses (2DEGs) are anti-parallel, and
positive maxima whenever the majority spins at the Fermi energies are parallel.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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