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We report the transport properties of a low disorder two-dimensional hole system (2DHS) in the GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, which has an unprecedentedly high peak mobility of $7\times 10^5cm^2/Vs$, with hole density of $4.8\times 10^9…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jongsoo Yoon , C. C. Li , D. Shahar , D. C. Tsui , M. Shayegan

We present results on electron transport in quasi-one dimensional (1D) quantum wires in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures obtained using an asymmetric confinement potential. The variation of the energy levels of the spatially quantized states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 S. Kumar , M. Pepper , H. Montagu , D. Ritchie , I. Farrer , J. Griffiths , G. Jones

We investigated the spin coherence of high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases confined in multilayer GaAs quantum wells. The dynamics of the spin polarization was optically studied using pump-probe techniques: time-resolved Kerr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 S. Ullah , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

Measurements in very low disorder two-dimensional electrons confined to relatively wide GaAs quantum well samples with tunable density reveal reentrant $\nu=1$ integer quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level near filling factors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Yang Liu , C. G. Pappas , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We investigate the effect due to background impurities embedded in the region of two-dimensional electron gases to the magnetotransport. These impurities are achieved by homogeneously incorporating Si atoms in single quantum wells of high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 E. P. Rugeramigabo , L. Bockhorn , R. J. Haug

The observation of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in 2D electron gases ushered in investigations of topological phases driven by strong electron correlations. Their remarkable features include fractionalized elementary…

A decade of intense research on two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals has revealed that their properties can differ greatly from those of the parent compound. These differences are governed by changes in the band structure due to quantum…

The growth and the density dependence of the low temperature mobility of a series of two-dimensional electron systems confined to un-intentionally doped, low extended defect density InAs quantum wells with Al$_{1-x}$Ga$_{x}$Sb barriers are…

We have studied the single-electron transport spectrum of a quantum dot in GaAs/AlGaAs resonant tunneling device. The measured spectrum has irregularities indicating a broken circular symmetry. We model the system with an external potential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Rasanen , J. Konemann , R. J. Haug , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

In this work, the changes in the energy of electrons and holes, oscillator strength and interband transition time when external fields are applied to a GaAs/AlGaAs semiconductor double ring grown by the droplet epitaxy technique are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Adrian Radu , Cristina Stan , Doina Bejan

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

Ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors promise to revolutionize power electronics, yet a fundamental understanding of their interfacial electronic structure has been hindered by the absence of direct experimental observation. Here, we…

We report a persistent increase or decrease in the two-dimensional electron density of AlAs or GaAs quantum wells flanked by AlGaAs barriers, brought about by illuminating the samples at T ~ 4 K while simultaneously applying a voltage bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. P. De Poortere , Y. P. Shkolnikov , M. Shayegan

We simulate the time-dependent coherent dynamics of a spatially indirect exciton (an electron-hole pair with the two particles confined in different layers) in a GaAs coupled quantum well system. We use a unitary wave-packet propagation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Federico Grasselli , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni

A scanning probe technique was used to obtain a high-resolution map of the random electrostatic potential inside the quantum Hall liquid. A sharp metal tip, scanned above a semiconductor surface, sensed charges in an embedded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Finkelstein , P. I. Glicofridis , R. C. Ashoori , M. Shayegan

We report electrical transport measurements on GaAs/AlGaAs based electron-hole bilayers. These systems are expected to make a transition from a pair of weakly coupled two-dimensional systems to a strongly coupled exciton system as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Seamons , C. P. Morath , J. L. Reno , M. P. Lilly

We present an inverted GaAs 2D electron gas with self-assembled InAs quantum dots in close proximity, with the goal of combining quantum transport with quantum optics experiments. We have grown and characterized several wafers -- using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 F. Dettwiler , P. Fallahi , D. Scholz , E. Reiger , D. Schuh , A. Badolato , W. Wegscheider , D. M. Zumbühl

By means of degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM), we investigate the quantum coherence of electron-hole pairs in the presence of a two-dimensional electron gas in modulation-doped GaAs-AlGaAs quantum wells in the quantum Hall effect regime.…

Using three-pulse four-wave-mixing optical spectroscopy, we study the ultrafast dynamics of the quantum Hall system. We observe striking differences as compared to an undoped system, where the 2D electron gas is absent. In particular, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-04 K. M. Dani , J. Tignon , M. Breit , D. S. Chemla , E. G. Kavousanaki , I. E. Perakis

Recent technological advances in controlling materials have developed methods to produce idealized two-dimensional (2D) electron systems such as heterogeneous interfaces, molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) grown atomic layers, exfoliated thin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-13 Yu Saito , Tsutomu Nojima , Yoshihiro Iwasa