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Onset of Interlayer Phase Coherence in a Bilayer Two-Dimensional Electron System: Effect of Layer Density Imbalance

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Tunneling and Coulomb drag are sensitive probes of spontaneous interlayer phase coherence in bilayer two-dimensional electron systems at total Landau level filling factor νT=1\nu_T = 1. We find that the phase boundary between the interlayer phase coherent state and the weakly-coupled compressible phase moves to larger layer separations as the electron density distribution in the bilayer is imbalanced. The critical layer separation increases quadratically with layer density difference.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406067,
  title  = {Onset of Interlayer Phase Coherence in a Bilayer Two-Dimensional Electron System: Effect of Layer Density Imbalance},
  author = {I. B. Spielman and M. Kellogg and J. P. Eisenstein and L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406067},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures