Composite Fermions in Modulated Structures: Transport and Surface Acoustic Waves
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-10-30 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
Motivated by a recent experiment of Willett et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4478 (1997)], we employ semiclassical composite-fermion theory to study the effect of a periodic density modulation on a quantum Hall system near Landau level filling factor nu=1/2. We show that even a weak density modulation leads to dramatic changes in surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) propagation, and propose an explanation for several key features of the experimental observations. We predict that properly arranged dc transport measurements would show a structure similar to that seen in SAW measurements.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9712031,
title = {Composite Fermions in Modulated Structures: Transport and Surface Acoustic Waves},
author = {Felix von Oppen and Ady Stern and Bertrand I. Halperin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9712031},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Version published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Figures changed to show SAW velocity shift. LaTeX, 5 pages, two included postscript figures