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Quantum Hall Exciton Condensation at Full Spin Polarization

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2010-01-05 v1

Abstract

Using Coulomb drag as a probe, we explore the excitonic phase transition in quantum Hall bilayers at nu=1 as a function of Zeeman energy, E_Z. The critical layer separation d/l for exciton condensation initially increases rapidly with E_Z, but then reaches a maximum and begins a gentle decline. At high E_Z, where both the excitonic phase at small d/l and the compressible phase at large d/l are fully spin polarized, we find that the width of the transition, as a function of d/l, is much larger than at small E_Z and persists in the limit of zero temperature. We discuss these results in the context of two models in which the system contains a mixture of the two fluids.

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@article{arxiv.0911.2461,
  title  = {Quantum Hall Exciton Condensation at Full Spin Polarization},
  author = {A. D. K. Finck and J. P. Eisenstein and L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2461},
  year   = {2010}
}

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4 pages, 3 eps figures