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Back gating of a two-dimensional hole gas in a SiGe quantum well
A device comprising a low-resistivity, n-type, Si substrate as a back gate to a p-type (boron), remote-doped, SiGe quantum well has been fabricated and characterized. Reverse and forward voltage biasing of the gate with respect to the two-dimensional hole gas in the quantum well allows the density of holes to be varied from 8 × 1011 cm–2 down to a measurement-limited value of 4 × 1011 cm–2. This device is used to demonstrate the evolution with decreasing carrier density of a re-entrant insulator state between the integer quantum Hall effect states with filling factors 1 and 3
Spin-orbit-induced correlations of the local density of states in two-dimensional electron gas
We study the local density of states (LDOS) of two-dimensional electrons in
the presence of spin-orbit (SO) coupling. Although SO coupling has no effect on
the average density of states, it manifests itself in the correlations of the
LDOS. Namely, the correlation function acquires two satellites centered at
energy difference equal to the SO splitting, , of the electron
Fermi surface. For a smooth disorder the satellites are well separated from the
main peak. Weak Zeeman splitting in a parallel
magnetic field causes an anomaly in the shape of the satellites. We consider
the effect of SO-induced satellites in the LDOS correlations on the shape of
the correlation function of resonant-tunneling conductances at different
source-drain biases, which can be measured experimentally. This shape is
strongly sensitive to the relation between and .Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Microwave induced magnetoresistance oscillations at the subharmonics of the cyclotron resonance
The magnetoresistance oscillations, which occur in a two-dimensional electron
system exposed to strong microwave radiation when the microwave frequency
coincides with the n-th subharmonic of the cyclotron frequency
have been investigated for n = 2, 3 and 4. It is shown that these
subharmonic features can be explained within a non-equilibrium energy
distribution function picture without invoking multi-photon absorption
processes. The existence of a frequency threshold above which such oscillations
disappear lends further support to this explanation.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Oscillatory nonlinear differential magnetoresistance of highly mobile 2D electrons in high Landau levels
We examine the current-induced magnetoresistance oscillations in
high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems using the balance-equation
scheme for nonlinear magnetotransort. The reported analytical expressions for
differential magnetoresistivity at high filling factors in the overlapping
Landau-level regime, which show good agreement with the experimental
observation and the numerical calculation, may be helpful in extracting
physical information from experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Microwave photoresponse in the 2D electron system caused by intra-Landau level transitions
The influence of microwave radiation on the DC-magnetoresistance of
2D-electrons is studied in the regime beyond the recently discovered zero
resistance states when the cyclotron frequency exceeds the radiation frequency.
Radiation below 30 GHz causes a strong suppression of the resistance over a
wide magnetic field range, whereas higher frequencies produce a non-monotonic
behavior in the damping of the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations. These
observations are explained by the creation of a non-equilibrium electron
distribution function by microwave induced intra-Landau level transitions.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Fractional quantum Hall effect without energy gap
In the fractional quantum Hall effect regime we measure diagonal
() and Hall () magnetoresistivity tensor components of
two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in gated GaAs/AlGaAs
heterojunctions, together with capacitance between 2DES and the gate. We
observe 1/3- and 2/3-fractional quantum Hall effect at rather low magnetic
fields where corresponding fractional minima in the thermodynamical density of
states have already disappeared manifesting complete suppression of the
quasiparticle energy gaps.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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