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It is shown that recent and earlier experiments, which claimed to observe a disagreement with the global phase diagram (GPD) of the quantum Hall effect, do not, in fact, contradict the GPD. Two aspects should be taken into account: (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. S. Murzin

We measure the low-field Hall resistivity of a magnetically-doped two-dimensional electron gas as a function of temperature and electrically-gated carrier density. Comparing these results with the carrier density extracted from Shubnikov-de…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Cumings , L. S. Moore , H. T. Chou , K. C. Ku , S. A. Crooker , N. Samarth , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We have measured the zero-bias differential tunneling conductance of InAs/AlSb/GaS b/AlSb/InAs heterostructures at low temperatures (1.7K < T < 60K) and unde r a magnetic field at various angles with the heterostructure's interfaces. Shubni…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. M. González , Y. Lin , E. E. Mendez

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 report on a temperature-induced transition from a conventional semiconductor to a two-dimensional topological insulator investigated by means of magnetotransport experiments on HgTe/CdTe quantum well structures. At low temperatures, we…

A quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is characterized by quantized Hall and vanishing longitudinal resistances at zero magnetic field that are protected against local perturbations and independent of sample details. This insensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 G. M. Ferguson , Run Xiao , Anthony R. Richardella , David Low , Nitin Samarth , Katja C. Nowack

There is considerable experimental evidence for the existence in Quantum Hall systems of an approximate emergent discrete symmetry, $\Gamma_0(2) \subset SL(2,Z)$. The evidence consists of the robustness of the tests of a suite a predictions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Burgess , B. P. Dolan

We study the quantum oscillations of inter-layer capacitance in an excitonic insulating electron-hole double layer with the Hartree Fock mean-field theory. Such oscillations could be simply understood from the physical picture ``exciton…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-03 Yuelin Shao , Xi Dai

We report the low-temperature magneto-transport in the bulk-insulating single crystal of topological insulator Sn doped Bi1.1Sb0.9Te2S. The Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations appear with their reciprocal frequency proportional to cos/theta ,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Bin Wu , Xing-Chen Pan , Wenkai Wu , Fucong Fei , Bo Chen , Qianqian Liu , Haijun Bu , Lu Cao , Fengqi Song , Baigeng Wang

The low-temperature($4.2<T<12.5$ K) magnetotransport ($B<2$ T) of two-dimensional electrons occupying two subbands (with energy $E_1$ and $E_2$) is investigated in GaAs single quantum well with AlAs/GaAs superlattice barriers. Two series of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 A. V. Goran , A. A. Bykov , A. I. Toropov , S. A. Vitkalov

We have investigated low-temperature electronic transport on InAs/GaSb double quantum wells, a system which promises to be electrically tunable from a normal to a topological insulator. Hall bars of $50\,\mu$m in length down to a few $\mu$m…

High-quality C-doped p-type AlGaAs heterostructures with mobilities exceeding 150 000 cm$^2$/Vs are investigated by low-temperature magnetotransport experiments. We find features of the fractional quantum Hall effect as well as a highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Grbic , C. Ellenberger , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

We present magnetotransport measurements on freely suspended two-dimensional electron gases from AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures. The technique to realize such devices relies on a specially MBE grown GaAs/AlGaAs-heterostructure including a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. H. Blick , F. G. Monzon , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler , F. Stern , M. L. Roukes

Shubnikov de Haas resistance oscillations of highly mobile two dimensional helical electrons propagating on a conducting surface of strained HgTe 3D topological insulator are studied in magnetic fields B tilted by angle $\theta$ from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 S. Abedi , S. A. Vitkalov , N. N. Mikhailov , Z. D. Kvon

Transport measurements on two dimensional electron systems in moderate magnetic fields suggest the existence of a spontaneously orientationally-ordered, compressible liquid state. We develop and analyze a microscopic theory of such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Leo Radzihovsky , Alan T. Dorsey

The electrical transport properties of a bipolar InAs/GaSb system have been studied in magnetic field. The resistivity oscillates between insulating and metallic behaviour while the quantum Hall effect shows a digital character oscillating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Nicholas , K. Takashina , M. Lakrimi , B. Kardynal , S. Khym , N. J. Mason , D. M. Symons , D. K. Maude , J. C. Portal

The phase transitions from one plateau to the next plateau or to an insulator in quantum Hall and quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) systems have revealed universal scaling behaviors. A magnetic-field-driven quantum phase transition from a QAH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Xinyu Wu , Di Xiao , Chui-Zhen Chen , Jian Sun , Ling Zhang , Moses H. W. Chan , Nitin Samarth , X. C. Xie , Xi Lin , Cui-Zu Chang

We investigate the Hall effect and the magnetoresistance of strongly correlated electron systems using the dynamical mean-field theory. We treat the low- and high-temperature limits analytically and explore some aspects of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Ekkehard Lange , Gabriel Kotliar

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) states discovered in an inverted band of InAs/GaSb and HgTe/CdTe quantum wells categorize them among the very superior candidates for topological insulators. In the presence of a magnetic field, these QSH states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Alestin Mawrie

Transport experiments in high mobility (110) GaAs heterostructures have been performed at very low temperatures 8 mK. At higher Landau-Levels we observe a transport anisotropy that bears some similarity with what is already seen at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank Fischer , Matthew Grayson , Erwin Schuberth , Dieter Schuh , Max Bichler , Gerhard Abstreiter