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The effect of a DC electric field on the longitudinal resistance of highly mobile two dimensional electrons in heavily doped GaAs quantum wells is studied at different magnetic fields and temperatures. Strong suppression of the resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jing-qiao Zhang , Sergey Vitkalov , A. A. Bykov , A. K. Kalagin , A. K. Bakarov

We investigated the low Prandtl number Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) system with a melting top boundary under horizontal magnetic fields. This study is crucial to gain physical insights into the melting dynamics of thermal storage systems, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-10 Xinyi Jiang , Chenyu You , Xinning Nan , Jiawei Chang , Zenghui Wang

The thermodynamic potential of an ideal nonrelativistic gas of two-dimensional electrons in crossed uniform magnetic and electric fields is constructed. For low temperatures and very weak electric fields, it is shown that the Hall…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Khalilov , Chi Yang

We report the temperature($T$) and perpendicular magnetic field($B$) dependence of the Hall resistivity $\rho_{xy}(B)$ of dilute metallic two-dimensional(2D) holes in GaAs over a broad range of temperature(0.02-1.25K). The low $B$ Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Xuan P. A. Gao , G. S. Boebinger , A. P. Mills , A. P. Ramirez , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We have studied the metallic behaviour in low density GaAs hole systems, and Si electron systems, close to the apparent two-dimensional metal-insulator transition. Two observations suggest a semi-classical origin for the metallic-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. R. Hamilton , M. Y. Simmons , M. Pepper , D. A. Ritchie

Observations are reported of a metal-insulator transition in a 2D hole gas in asymmetrically doped strained SiGe quantum wells. The metallic phase, which appears at low temperatures in these high mobility samples, is characterised by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 P. T. Coleridge , R. L. Williams , Y. Feng , P. Zawadzki

We have investigated the magnetoresistance of strongly asymmetric double-well structures formed by a thin AlGaAs barrier grown far from the interface in the GaAs buffer of standard heterostructures. In magnetic fields oriented parallel to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Svoboda , Y. Krupko , L. Smrcka , M. Cukr , T. Jungwirth , L. Jansen

The resistivity $\rho$ of high mobility dilute 2D holes in GaAs exhibits a peak at a certain temperature $T^*$ in zero magnetic field($B$=0). In the $T>T^*$ regime where d$\rho$/d$T<$0, we observe for the first time both the $\nu=1$ quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Xuan P. A. Gao , A. P. Mills , A. P. Ramirez , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The effect of a spatially modulated magnetic field on the weak localization phenomenon in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is studied. Both the dephasing time $\tau_H$ and magnetoresistance are shown to reveal a nontrivial behavior as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. S. Melnikov , S. V. Mironov , S. V. Sharov

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

For more than a decade it was widely accepted that two-dimensional electrons are insulating at zero temperature and at zero magnetic-field. Experimentally it was demonstrated that, when placed in a strong perpendicular magnetic field, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Hanein , D. Shahar , Hadas Shtrikman , J. Yoon , C. C. Li , D. C. Tsui

Magnetoconductance of a gated two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the inversion layer on p-type HgCdTe crystal is investigated. At strong magnetic fields, characteristic features such as quantum Hall effect of a 2DEG with single subband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rui Yang , Guolin Yu , Kuanghong Gao , Laiming Wei , Xinzhi Liu , Tie Lin , Shaoling Guo , Ning Dai , Junhao Chu

We observe an unusual behavior of the low-temperature magnetoresistance of the high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in InGaAs/InAlAs quantum wells in weak perpendicular magnetic fields. The observed magnetoresistance is qualitatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 M. Yu. Melnikov , A. A. Shashkin , V. T. Dolgopolov , G. Biasiol , S. Roddaro , L. Sorba

Utilizing a novel carbon doping source, we prepared two-dimensional hole gases in a symmetric quantum well structure in the GaAs/AlGaAs heterosystem. Low temperature hole mobilities up to 1.2 x 10^6 cm^2/Vs at a density of 2.3 x 10^11 cm^-2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Gerl , S. Schmult , H. - P. Tranitz , C. Mitzkus , W. Wegscheider

We collect and review works which treat two-dimensional electron gases in quantum wells (mostly GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructures) in the presence of quantizing magnetic fields as open systems in contact with outside reservoirs. If a reservoir…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 W. Zawadzki , A. Raymond , M. Kubisa

We study the transport properties of $HgTe$-based quantum wells containing simultaneously electrons and holes in magnetic field B. At the charge neutrality point (CNP) with nearly equal electron and hole densities, the resistance is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 G. M. Gusev , E. B. Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , J. C. Portal

We report in this Letter our recent low temperature transport results in a Si/SiGe quantum well with moderate peak mobility. An apparent metal-insulating transition is observed. Within a small range of densities near the transition, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. M. Lu , W. Pan , D. C. Tsui , P. C. Liu , Z. Zhang , Y. H. Xie

We compare the effects of temperature, disorder and parallel magnetic field on the metallic-like temperature dependence of the resistivity. We found a similarity between the effects of disorder and parallel field: the parallel field weakens…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Pudalov , G. Brunthaler , A. Prinz , G. Bauer

We consider the two-dimensional chiral metal, which exists at the surface of a layered, three-dimensional sample exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect. We calculate its magnetoresistance in response to a component of magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 J. T. Chalker , S. L. Sondhi

In-plane magnetic field photoluminescence spectra from a series of GaAs/AlGaAs coupled double quantum wells show distinctive doublet structures related to the symmetric and antisymmetric states. The magnetic field behavior of the upper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yongmin Kim , C. H. Perry , J. A. Simmons