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Magnetoresistance and cyclotron mass in extremely-coupled double quantum wells under in-plane magnetic fields
The authors experimentally investigate the transport properties of an extremely-coupled AlGaAs/GaAs double quantum well, subject to in-plane magnetic fields (B{sub {parallel}}). The coupling of the double quantum well is sufficiently strong that the symmetric-antisymmetric energy gap ({Delta}{sub SAS}) is larger than the Fermi energy (E{sub F}). Thus for all B{sub {parallel}} only the lower energy branch of the dispersion curve is occupied. In contrast to systems with weaker coupling such that {Delta}{sub SAS} < E{sub F} the authors find: (1) only a single feature, a maximum, in the in-plane magnetoresistance, (2) a monotonic increase with B{sub {parallel}} in the cyclotron mass up to 2.2 times the bulk GaAs mass, and (3) an increasing Fermi surface orbit area with B{sub {parallel}}, in good agreement with theoretical predictions