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Modulation of bilayer quantum Hall states by tilted-field-induced subband-Landau-level coupling

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We study effects of tilted magnetic fields on energy levels in a double-quantum-well (DQW) system, focusing on the coupling of subbands and Landau levels (LLs). The subband-LL coupling induces anticrossings between LLs, manifested directly in the magnetoresistance. The anticrossing gap becomes larger than the spin splitting at the tilting angle θ20\theta \sim 20^\circ and larger than the cyclotron energy at θ50\theta \sim 50^\circ , demonstrating that the subband-LL coupling exerts a strong influence on quantum Hall states even in at a relatively small θ\theta and plays a dominant role for larger θ\theta . We also find that when the DQW potential is asymmetric, LL coupling occurs even within a subband. Calculations including higher-order coupling reproduce the experimental results quantitatively well.

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@article{arxiv.0709.4306,
  title  = {Modulation of bilayer quantum Hall states by tilted-field-induced subband-Landau-level coupling},
  author = {N. Kumada and K. Iwata and K. Tagashira and Y. Shimoda and K. Muraki and Y. Hirayama and A. Sawada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4306},
  year   = {2009}
}