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Spinless composite fermions in an ultra-high quality strained Ge quantum well

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-11-18 v1

Abstract

We report on an observation of a fractional quantum Hall effect in an ultra-high quality two-dimensional hole gas hosted in a strained Ge quantum well. The Hall resistance reveals precisely quantized plateaus and vanishing longitudinal resistance at filling factors ν=2/3,4/3\nu = 2/3, 4/3 and 5/35/3. From the temperature dependence around ν=3/2\nu = 3/2 we obtain the composite fermion mass of m0.4mem^\star \approx 0.4\,m_e, where mem_e is the mass of a free electron. Owing to large Zeeman energy, all observed states are spin-polarized and can be described in terms of spinless composite fermions.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05164,
  title  = {Spinless composite fermions in an ultra-high quality strained Ge quantum well},
  author = {Q. Shi and M. A. Zudov and C. Morrison and M. Myronov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05164},
  year   = {2015}
}