Using a combination of heat pulse and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques we demonstrate that the phase boundary separating the interlayer phase coherent quantum Hall effect at νT=1 in bilayer electron gases from the weakly coupled compressible phase depends upon the spin polarization of the nuclei in the host semiconductor crystal. Our results strongly suggest that, contrary to the usual assumption, the transition is attended by a change in the electronic spin polarization.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0410092,
title = {Spin Transition in Strongly Correlated Bilayer Two Dimensional Electron Systems},
author = {I. B. Spielman and L. A. Tracy and J. P. Eisenstein and L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0410092},
year = {2009}
}