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Canted antiferromagnetic phase in a double quantum well in a tilted quantizing magnetic field

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-31 v5

Abstract

We investigate the double-layer electron system in a parabolic quantum well at filling factor ν=2\nu=2 in a tilted magnetic field using capacitance spectroscopy. The competition between two ground states is found at the Zeeman splitting appreciably smaller than the symmetric-antisymmetric splitting. Although at the transition point the system breaks up into domains of the two competing states, the activation energy turns out to be finite, signaling the occurrence of a new insulator-insulator quantum phase transition. We interpret the obtained results in terms of a predicted canted antiferromagnetic phase.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903396,
  title  = {Canted antiferromagnetic phase in a double quantum well in a tilted quantizing magnetic field},
  author = {V. S. Khrapai and E. V. Deviatov and A. A. Shashkin and V. T. Dolgopolov and F. Hastreiter and A. Wixforth and K. L. Campman and A. C. Gossard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903396},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures included, accepted to PRL