216 research outputs found
Acoustic Measurements of the Stripe and the Bubble Quantum Hall Phases
We launch surface acoustic waves (SAW) along both the directions of a Hall bar and measure the anisotropic conductivity
in a high purity GaAs 2-D electron system in the Quantum Hall regime of the
stripe and the bubble phases. In the anisotropic stripe phase, SAW propagating
along the "easy" direction. In the isotropic bubble phase,
the SAW data show compressible behavior in both directions, in marked contrast
to the incompressible quantum Hall behavior seen in transport measurements.
These results challenge models that assume that both the stripe and the bubble
phase consist of incompressible domains and raise important questions about the
role of domain boundaries in SAW propagation.Comment: Published version from New Journal of Physic
Electron spin resonance on a 2-dimensional electron gas in a single AlAs quantum well
Direct electron spin resonance (ESR) on a high mobility two dimensional
electron gas in a single AlAs quantum well reveals an electronic -factor of
1.991 at 9.35 GHz and 1.989 at 34 GHz with a minimum linewidth of 7 Gauss. The
ESR amplitude and its temperature dependence suggest that the signal originates
from the effective magnetic field caused by the spin orbit-interaction and a
modulation of the electron wavevector caused by the microwave electric field.
This contrasts markedly to conventional ESR that detects through the microwave
magnetic field.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Anomalous resistance overshoot in the integer quantum Hall effect
In this work we report experiments on defined by shallow etching narrow Hall
bars. The magneto-transport properties of intermediate mobility two-dimensional
electron systems are investigated and analyzed within the screening theory of
the integer quantized Hall effect. We observe a non-monotonic increase of Hall
resistance at the low magnetic field ends of the quantized plateaus, known as
the overshoot effect. Unexpectedly, for Hall bars that are defined by shallow
chemical etching the overshoot effect becomes more pronounced at elevated
temperatures. We observe the overshoot effect at odd and even integer plateaus,
which favor a spin independent explanation, in contrast to discussion in the
literature. In a second set of the experiments, we investigate the overshoot
effect in gate defined Hall bar and explicitly show that the amplitude of the
overshoot effect can be directly controlled by gate voltages. We offer a
comprehensive explanation based on scattering between evanescent incompressible
channels.Comment: 7 pages and 5 figure
Stable Branched Electron Flow
The pattern of branched electron flow revealed by scanning gate microscopy
shows the distribution of ballistic electron trajectories. The details of the
pattern are determined by the correlated potential of remote dopants with an
amplitude far below the Fermi energy. We find that the pattern persists even if
the electron density is significantly reduced such that the change in Fermi
energy exceeds the background potential amplitude. The branch pattern is robust
against changes in charge carrier density, but not against changes in the
background potential caused by additional illumination of the sample.Comment: Accepted for publication in New Journal of Physic
Coulomb Drag as a Probe of the Nature of Compressible States in a Magnetic Field
Magneto-drag reveals the nature of compressible states and the underlying
interplay of disorder and interactions. At \nu=3/2 a clear T^{4/3} dependence
is observed, which signifies the metallic nature of the N=0 Landau level. In
contrast, drag in higher Landau levels reveals an additional contribution,
which anomalously grows with decreasing T before turning to zero following a
thermal activation law. The anomalous drag is discussed in terms of
electron-hole asymmetry arising from disorder and localization, and the
crossover to normal drag at high fields as due to screening of disorder.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Activated Transport in the individual Layers that form the =1 Exciton Condensate
We observe the total filling factor =1 quantum Hall state in a
bilayer two-dimensional electron system with virtually no tunnelling. We find
thermally activated transport in the balanced system with a monotonic increase
of the activation energy with decreasing below 1.65. In the
imbalanced system we find activated transport in each of the layers separately,
yet the activation energies show a striking asymmetry around the balance point.
This implies that the gap to charge-excitations in the {\em individual} layers
is substantially different for positive and negative imbalance.Comment: 4 pages. 4 figure
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
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