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In PbTe wide parabolic quantum wells (WPQW) a plateau-like structure is observed in the Hall resistance, which corresponds to the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the same manner as known from the quantum Hall effect. At the same time a…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Oswald , G. Span , A. Homer , G. Heigl , P. Ganitzer , D. K. Maude , J. C. Portal

The conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas in a parallel magnetic field is calculated. We take into account the magnetic field induced spin-splitting, which changes the density of states, the Fermi momentum and the screening…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. T. Dolgopolov , A. Gold

We develop a classical kinetic theory of magnetotransport of 2D electrons in narrow channels with partly diffusive boundary scattering and apply it to description of magnetoresistance measured in the temperature interval 4.2-30 K in long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 O. E. Raichev , G. M. Gusev , A. D. Levin , A. K. Bakarov

The magnetotransport of highly mobile 2D electrons in wide GaAs single quantum wells with three populated subbands placed in titled magnetic fields is studied. The bottoms of the lower two subbands have nearly the same energy while the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-16 William Mayer , Jesse Kanter , Javad Shabani , Sergey Vitkalov , A. K. Bakarov , A. A. Bykov

The resistance of layered conductors with a multisheet Fermi surface (FS), in a high magnetic field, in the immediate vicinity of Lifshic's topological transition when the separate FS sheets are drown together by an external action,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 O. Galbova , V. Peschansky

The transport properties of the two-dimensional system in HgTe-based quantum wells containing simultaneously electrons and holes of low densities are examined. The Hall resistance, as a function of perpendicular magnetic field, reveals an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 O. E. Raichev , G. M. Gusev , E. B. Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , J. C. Portal

Magneto-transport measurements of Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations have been performed on two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) confined in CdTe and CdMnTe quantum wells. The quantum oscillations in CdMnTe, where the 2DEG interacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 J. Kunc , B. A. Piot , D. K. Maude , M. Potemski , R. Grill , C. Betthausen , D. Weiss , V. Kolkovsky , G. Karczewski , T. Wojtowicz

Theoretically, the helical edge states of two-dimensional topological insulators are protected from coherent backscattering due to nonmagnetic disorder provided electron interactions are not too strong. Experimentally, the edges typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 A. V. Bubis , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , A. G. Nasibulin , E. S. Tikhonov

We analyze the magnetoconductance of two-dimensional electron and hole gases (2DEGs) subject to a parallel magnetic field. It is shown that, for confining potential wells which are symmetric with respect to spatial inversion, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julia S. Meyer , Alexander Altland , B. L. Altshuler

Using a new MBE growth technique, we fabricate a two-dimensional electron system which is bent around an atomically sharp 90 degree corner. In the quantum Hall regime under tilted magnetic fields, we can measure equilibration between both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Grayson , D. Schuh , M. Bichler , G. Abstreiter , L. Hoeppel , J. Smet , K. von Klitzing

Magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) host topologically protected edge states, but the role that these edge states play in electronic transport remains unclear. Using scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 G. M. Ferguson , Run Xiao , Anthony R. Richardella , Austin Kaczmarek , Nitin Samarth , Katja C. Nowack

The effects of Hubbard-type on-site interactions on the BHZ model is studied in this paper for model parameters appropriate for the HgTe/CdTe quantum well. Within a simple mean field theory we search for plausible magnetic instabilities in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-22 Zewei Chen , Tai Kai Ng

We calculate the conductance of a two-dimensional bilayer with inverted electron-hole bands, to study the sensitivity of the quantum spin Hall insulator (with helical edge conduction) to the combination of electrostatic disorder and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 D. I. Pikulin , T. Hyart , Shuo Mi , J. Tworzydło , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker

We explore a regime of unipolar electronic transport in a multiple quantum well structure with very large current discontinuities - up to five orders of magnitude. Magneto-transport experiments reveal different transport regimes. Quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Gomez , V. Berger , N. Pere-Laperne , L. A. De Vaulchier

We have measured magnetotransport of the two-dimensional electron gas in a Hall bar geometry in the presence of small carrier density gradients. We find that the longitudinal resistances measured at both sides of the Hall bar interchange by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 L. A. Ponomarenko , D. T. N. de Lang , A. de Visser , V. A. Kulbachinskii , G. B. Galiev , H. Künzel , A. M. M. Pruisken

The robustness of quantum edge transport in InAs/GaSb quantum wells in the presence of magnetic fields raises an issue on the fate of topological phases of matter under time-reversal symmetry breaking. A peculiar band structure evolution in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Chang-An Li , Song-Bo Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

The change of a material's electrical resistance (R) in response to an external magnetic field (B) provides subtle information for the characterization of its electronic properties and has found applications in sensor and storage related…

We have investigated the local magneto-transport in high-quality 2D electron systems at low carrier densities. The positive magneto-resistance in perpendicular magnetic field in the strongly insulating regime has been measured to evaluate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ghosh , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

We have studied magnetotransport properties of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system subject to weak electric fields. At low magnetic field $B$, the differential resistivity acquires a correction $\delta r \propto -\lambda^2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. T. Hatke , M. A. Zudov , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We have studied the magnetotransport properties of a high mobility two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) system in a 10nm GaAs quantum well (QW) with densities in range of 0.7-1.6*10^10 cm^-2 on the metallic side of the zero-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Xuan P. A. Gao , Allen P. Mills , Arthur P. Ramirez , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Kenneth W. West