English
Related papers

Related papers: Two-dimensional electrons occupying multiple valle…

200 papers

We find that the motion of the valley electrons -- electronic states close to the ${\rm K}$ and ${\rm K'}$ points of the Brillouin zone -- is confined into two dimension when the layers of MoS$_{2}$ follow the 3R stacking, while in the 2H…

In a GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron system with two occupied subbands, the experimentally determined phase diagram in the density-magnetic field plane exhibits rich topological features. Ring-like structures are observed at even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. C. Zhang , D. R. Faulhaber , H. W. Jiang

We report measurements of the interaction-induced quantum Hall effect in a spin-polarized AlAs two-dimensional electron system where the electrons occupy two in-plane conduction band valleys. Via the application of in-plane strain, we tune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. P. Shkolnikov , S. Misra , N. C. Bishop , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan

We measure the effective mass (m*) of interacting two-dimensional electrons confined to an AlAs quantum well while we change the conduction-band valley occupation and the spin polarization via the application of strain and magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Gokmen , Medini Padmanabhan , M. Shayegan

The two-dimensional electron gas is of fundamental importance in quantum many-body physics. We study a minimal extension of this model with $C_4$ (as opposed to full rotational) symmetry and an electronic dispersion with two valleys with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-22 Agnes Valenti , Vladimir Calvera , Steven A. Kivelson , Erez Berg , Sebastian D. Huber

By measuring the angles at which the Landau levels overlap in tilted magnetic fields (the coincidence method), we determine the splitting of the conduction-band valleys in high-mobility two-dimensional (2D) electrons confined to AlAs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. P. Shkolnikov , E. P. De Poortere , E. Tutuc , M. Shayegan

A two-dimensional (2D) electron gas formed in a modulation-doped GaAs/AlGaAs single quantum well undergoes a first-order transition when the first excited subband is occupied with electrons, as the Fermi level is tuned into resonance with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. R. Goñi , U. Haboeck , C. Thomsen , K. Eberl , F. A. Reboredo , C. R. Proetto , F. Guinea

Magneto-transport measurements in a clean two-dimensional electron system confined to a wide GaAs quantum well reveal that, when the electrons occupy two electric subbands, the sequences of fractional quantum Hall states observed at high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Shabani , Y. Liu , M. Shayegan

Electron-like carriers in bismuth are described by the Dirac Hamiltonian, with a band mass becoming a thousandth of the bare electron mass along one crystalline axis. The existence of three anisotropic valleys offers electrons an additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-01 R. Kuechler , L. Steinke , R. Daou , M. Brando , K. Behnia , F. Steglich

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 Land\'e $g$-factor of conduction electrons in the $L$-valley of bulk GaAs and AlAs by using a three-band $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ model together with the tight-binding model. We find that the $L$-valley $g$-factor is highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-30 K. Shen , M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

Oscillations of the real component of AC conductivity $\sigma_1$ in a magnetic field were measured in the n-AlGaAs/GaAs structure with a wide (75 nm) quantum well by contactless acoustic methods at $T$=(20-500)~mK. In a wide quantum well,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , M. O. Nestoklon , D. Kamburov , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , L. E. Golub

We calculate using the Boltzmann transport theory the density dependent mobility of two-dimensional (2D) electrons in GaAs, SiGe and AlAs quantum wells as well as of 2D holes in GaAs quantum wells. The goal is to precisely understand the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Seongjin Ahn , Sankar Das Sarma

We report low temperature magnetotransport measurements on a high mobility (\mu=325,000 cm^2/V sec) 2D electron system on a H-terminated Si(111) surface. While low magnetic field data indicate a six-fold valley degenerate system, we observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Tomasz M. Kott , Binhui Hu , S. H. Brown , B. E. Kane

A five-level {\Pp} model of the band structure for GaAs-type semiconductors is used to describe the spin $g^*$-factor and the cyclotron mass $m^*_c$ of conduction electrons in GaAs/Ga$_{1-x}$Al$_x$As quantum wells in an external magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Pfeffer , W. Zawadzki

We study theoretically the effect of an electric field on the electron states and far-infrared optical properties in narrow-gap lead salt quantum wells. The electron states are described by a two-band Hamiltonian. An application of a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos , F. T. Vasko

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 report on the achievement of a two-dimensional electron gas in completely undoped In[0.75]Al[0.25]As/In[0.75]Ga[0.25]As metamorphic quantum wells. Using these structures we were able to reduce the carrier density, with respect to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Capotondi , G. Biasiol , I. Vobornik , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto , A. Cavallini , B. Fraboni

Thanks to their multi-valley, anisotropic, energy band structure, two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) in modulation-doped AlAs quantum wells (QWs) provide a unique platform to investigate electron interaction physics and ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Yoon Jang Chung , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , D. Kamburov , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer

This paper details a complete formalism for calculating electron subband energy and degeneracy in strained multi-valley quantum wells grown along any orientation with explicit results for the AlAs quantum well case. A standardized rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Prabhu-Gaunkar , S. Birner , S. Dasgupta , C. Knaak , M. Grayson