200 research outputs found
Noise thermometry in narrow 2D electron gas heat baths connected to a quasi-1D interferometer
Thermal voltage noise measurements are performed in order to determine the
electron temperature in nanopatterned channels of a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure
at bath temperatures of 4.2 and 1.4 K. Two narrow two-dimensional (2D) heating
channels, close to the transition to the one-dimensional (1D) regime, are
connected by a quasi-1D quantum interferometer. Under dc current heating of the
electrons in one heating channel, we perform cross-correlated noise
measurements locally in the directly heated channel and nonlocally in the other
channel, which is indirectly heated by hot electron diffusion across the
quasi-1D connection. We observe the same functional dependence of the thermal
noise on the heating current. The temperature dependence of the electron
energy-loss rate is reduced compared to wider 2D systems. In the quantum
interferometer, we show the decoherence due to the diffusion of hot electrons
from the heating channel into the quasi-1D system, which causes a thermal
gradient.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Specific Heat of a Fractional Quantum Hall System
Using a time-resolved phonon absorption technique, we have measured the
specific heat of a two-dimensional electron system in the fractional quantum
Hall effect regime. For filling factors
and 1/3 the specific heat displays a strong exponential temperature dependence
in agreement with excitations across a quasi-particle gap. At filling factor
we were able to measure the specific heat of a composite fermion
system for the first time. The observed linear temperature dependence on
temperature down to K agrees well with early predictions for a Fermi
liquid of composite fermions.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures (version is 1. resubmission: Added a paragraph to
include the problems which arise by the weak temperature dependence at \nu =
1/2, updated affiliation
Scaling of the Kondo zero bias peak in a hole quantum dot at finite temperatures
We have measured the zero bias peak in differential conductance in a hole
quantum dot. We have scaled the experimental data with applied bias and
compared to real time renormalization group calculations of the differential
conductance as a function of source-drain bias in the limit of zero temperature
and at finite temperatures. The experimental data show deviations from the T=0
calculations at low bias, but are in very good agreement with the finite T
calculations. The Kondo temperature T_K extracted from the data using T=0
calculations, and from the peak width at 2/3 maximum, is significantly higher
than that obtained from finite T calculations.Comment: Accepted to Phys. Rev. B (Rapid
Fabrication of quantum point contacts by engraving GaAs/AlGaAs-heterostructures with a diamond tip
We use the all-diamond tip of an atomic force microscope for the direct
engraving of high quality quantum point contacts in
GaAs/AlGaAs-heterostructures. The processing time is shortened by two orders of
magnitude compared to standard silicon tips. Together with a reduction of the
line width to below 90 nm the depletion length of insulating lines is reduced
by a factor of two with the diamond probes. The such fabricated defect free
ballistic constrictions show well resolved conductance plateaus and the 0.7
anomaly in electronic transport measurements.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
Equilibration between edge states in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime at high imbalances
We experimentally study equilibration between edge states, co-propagating at
the edge of the fractional quantum Hall liquid, at high initial imbalances. We
find an anomalous increase of the conductance between the fractional edge
states at the filling factor in comparison with the expected one for
the model of independent edge states. We conclude that the model of independent
fractional edge states is not suitable to describe the experimental situation
at .Comment: 4 page
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