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We report measurements of GaAs/AlGaAs undoped field-effect transistors in which two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) of exceptional quality and versatility are induced without modulation doping. Electron mobilities at T=4.2 K and density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. R. Facer , B. E. Kane , A. S. Dzurak , R. J. Heron , N. E. Lumpkin , R. G. Clark , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Ultra-clean low-dimensional interacting charge carrier systems are the basis to explore correlated states and phases. We report the observation of very narrow collective intersubband excitations (ISBE) of 2D electron systems (2DESs) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Ursula Wurstbauer , Michael J. Manfra , Ken W. West , Loren N. Pfeiffer

Clean two-dimensional electron systems in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures exhibit anisotropic collective phases, the quantum Hall nematics, at high Landau level occupancy and low temperatures. An as yet unknown native symmetry-breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 J. Pollanen , K. B. Cooper , S. Brandsen , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We study the density of states of two-dimensional electron gas in magnetic field with scattering on point-like impurities that are uniformly distributed along the sample. We show that the electron-impurity interaction completely lifts the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 A. M. Dyugaev , P. D. Grigoriev , Yu. N. Ovchinnikov

Strongly correlated electron liquids which occur in quantizing magnetic fields reveal a cornucopia of fascinating quantum phenomena such as fractionally charged quasiparticles, anyonic statistics, topological order, and many others. Probing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 D. A. Abanin , I. Skachko , X. Du , E. Y. Andrei , L. S. Levitov

Near-surface InAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) systems have great potential for realizing networks of multiple Majorana zero modes towards a scalable topological quantum computer. Improving mobility in the near-surface 2DEGs is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Joon Sue Lee , Borzoyeh Shojaei , Mihir Pendharkar , Mayer Feldman , Kunal Mukherjee , Chris J. Palmstrøm

We investigate high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases in AlGaAs heterostructures by employing Schottky-gate-dependent measurements of the samples' electron density and mobility. Surprisingly, we find that two different sample…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 C. Rossler , T. Feil , P. Mensch , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider

We report experimental results on a quantum point contact (QPC) device formed in a wide AlAs quantum well where the two-dimensional electrons occupy two in-plane valleys with elliptical Fermi contours. To probe the closely-spaced,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Gunawan , B. Habib , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan

We have fabricated high-mobility, two-dimensional electron gases in a GaAs quantum well on cylindrical surfaces, which allows to investigate the magnetotransport behavior under varying magnetic fields along the current path. A strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 K. -J. Friedland , R. Hey , H. Kostial , U. Jahn , E. Wiebicke , K. H. Ploog , A. Vorob'ev , Ju. Yukecheva , V. Prinz

We have realized a two-dimensional hole system (2DHS), in which the 2DHS is induced at an atomically flat hydrogen-terminated Si(111) surface by a negative gate voltage applied across a vacuum cavity. Hole densities up to $7.5\times10^{11}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Binhui Hu , Tomasz M. Kott , Robert N. McFarland , B. E. Kane

Photoluminescence and magnetotransport measurements have been performed to assess the quality of modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. The temporal evolution of the low-temperature electron mobility of samples prepared in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Klaus Wagenhuber , Hans-Peter Tranitz , Matthias Reinwald , Werner Wegscheider

Two-dimensional layered and atomically thin elemental superconductors may be key ingredients in next-generation quantum technologies, if they can be stabilized and integrated into heterostructured devices under ambient conditions. However,…

We report the observation of an electron gas in a SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum well with maximum mobility up to 240 m^2/Vs, which is noticeably higher than previously reported results in silicon-based structures. Using SiO, rather than Al_2O_3, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 M. Yu. Melnikov , A. A. Shashkin , V. T. Dolgopolov , S. -H. Huang , C. W. Liu , S. V. Kravchenko

Topological superconductivity can be engineered in semiconductors with strong spin-orbit interaction coupled to a superconductor. Experimental advances in this field have often been triggered by the development of new hybrid material…

The ground state of two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) at low Landau level filling factors ($\nu\lesssim1/6$) has long been a topic of interest and controversy in condensed matter. Following the recent breakthrough in the quality of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Yoon Jang Chung , D. Graf , L. W. Engel , K. A. Villegas Rosales , P. T. Madathil , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , M. Shayegan

Candidate systems for topologically-protected qubits include two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) based on heterostructures exhibiting a strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and superconductivity via the proximity effect. For InAs- or…

In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina

In this paper, we analyze several experiments that address the effects of electron-electron interactions in 2D electron (hole) systems in the regime of low carrier density. The interaction effects result in renormalization of the effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 V. M. Pudalov , M. E. Gershenson , H. Kojima

In an ultra-clean 2D electron system (2DES) subjected to crossed millimeterwave (30--150 GHz) and weak (B < 2 kG) magnetic fields, a series of apparently dissipationless states emerges as the system is detuned from cyclotron resonances.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. A. Zudov , R. R. Du , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

An interaction of a double layer electron system realized in an AlGaAs-GaAs-AlGaAs heterostructure with nonuniform elastic modes localized in the GaAs layer is considered. The dependence of the coupling constant on the ratio between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. V. Fil