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We have measured the magnetization of a dual-subband two-dimensional electron gas, confined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction. In contrast to two-dimensional electron gases with a single subband, we observe non-1/B-periodic, triangularly…

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We study the effect of magnetic field on the properties of a high mobility gated two-dimensional electron gas in a field effect transistor with the Hall bar geometry. When approaching the current saturation when the drain side of the…

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An elementary calculation shows that Landau diamagnetism becomes significantly altered and very large paramagnetic effects emerge at low temperature in nanoscale 2DEG strips penetrated by a perpendicular applied magnetic field and bounded…

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The intriguing re-entrant integer quantized Hall states recently discovered in high Landau levels of high-mobility 2D electron systems are found to exhibit extremely non-linear transport. At small currents these states reflect insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. B. Cooper , M. P. Lilly , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

A strong anisotropy in the longitudinal resistivity of a 2D electron system has been observed at half-filled high Landau levels. We report on detailed Hartree-Fock calculations of the unidirectional charge density wave (UCDW) orientation…

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We present a theoretical study of the electronic structure of modulated graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The density of states and the bandwidth for the Dirac electrons in this system are determined. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M Tahir , K Sabeeh , A MacKinnon

Magneto-transport experiments on high mobility two-dimensional electron gases in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures have revealed striking anomalies near half-filling of several spin-resolved, yet highly excited, Landau levels. These anomalies…

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Using the path-integral approach developed by Br\'ezin et al. [ Nucl.Phys.B235, 24 (1984) ], we obtain an analytical expression for the density of states of a spin-1/2 disordered two-dimensional electron gas in a strong, perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Ming-Hsien Tu , Min-Fong Yang

We study light scattering from a periodically modulated two dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field. If a subband is partially filled, the imaginary part of the dielectric function as a function of frequency contains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Arne Brataas , C. Zhang , K. A. Chao

The tunneling between two parallel two-dimensional electron gases has been investigated as a function of temperature $T$, carrier density $n$, and the applied perpendicular magnetic field $B$. In zero magnetic field the equilibrium resonant…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. Turner , J. T. Nicholls , E. H. Linfield , K. M. Brown , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie

Using a `standard' NMR spin-echo technique we determined the spin polarization of two-dimensional electrons, confined to GaAs quantum wells, from the hyperfine shift of Ga nuclei in the wells. Concentrating on the temperature and magnetic…

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Strain-inducing deformations in graphene alter charge distributions and provide a new method to design specific features in the band structure and transport properties. Novel approaches implement engineered substrates to induce specifically…

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A piezoelectric mechanism of orientation of stripes in two-dimensional quantum Hall systems in GaAs heterostructures is considered. The anisotropy of the elastic moduli and the boundary of the sample are taken into account. It is found that…

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Measurements in clean two-dimensional electron systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells in which two electric subbands are occupied reveal an unexpected rotation of the orientation of the stripe phase observed at a half-filled Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Yang Liu , D. Kamburov , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Two-dimensional (2D) electrons in an in-plane magnetic field become fully spin polarized above a field B_P, which we can determine from the in-plane magnetoresistance. We perform such measurements in modulation-doped AlAs electron systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. P. De Poortere , E. Tutuc , Y. P. Shkolnikov , K. Vakili , M. Shayegan

We study the energy spectrum and wave packet dynamics of electrons in a two-dimensional periodic potential subject to a perpendicular spatially modulated magnetic field. We observe avoided band crossings, metal-insulator transitions, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Björn Naundorf , Roland Ketzmerick

In ultra-clean 2D electron systems on (001) GaAs/AlGaAs upon filling high Landau levels, it was recently observed a new class of collective states, which can be related to the spontaneous formation of a charge density wave (``striped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Takhtamirov , V. A. Volkov

We determine the spin susceptibility in a two dimensional electron system in GaAs/AlGaAs over a wide range of low densities from 2$\times10^{9}$cm$^{-2}$ to 4$\times10^{10}$cm$^{-2}$. Our data can be fitted to an equation that describes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Zhu , H. L. Stormer , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We report measurements and calculations of the spin-polarization, induced by a parallel magnetic field, of interacting, dilute, two-dimensional electron systems confined to GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. The results reveal the crucial role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Tutuc , S. Melinte , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan , R. Winkler

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