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With unusually slow and high-resolution sweeps of magnetic field, strong, ultra-narrow (width down to $100 {\rm \mu T}$) resistance peaks are observed in the regime of breakdown of the quantum Hall effect. The peaks are dependent on the…
We propose a theory for the new effects recently observed by Willett et al [1] in the magnetoresistance of a weakly modulated two dimensional electron gas near filling factor 1/2. Minima in transverse magnetoresistance and maxima in…
Two dimensional electron gases in narrow GaAs quantum wells show huge longitudinal resistance (HLR) values at certain fractional filling factors. Applying an RF field with frequencies corresponding to the nuclear spin splittings of {69}Ga,…
We report the observation of a new phenomenon of colossal magnetoresistance in a 40 nm wide GaAs quantum well in the presence of an external magnetic field applied parallel to the high-mobility 2D electron layer. In a strong magnetic field,…
Experimental data available in the literature for peak values of the diagonal resistivity in the transitions between fractional quantum Hall states are compared with the theoretical predictions. It is found that the majority of the peak…
The in-plane magnetic field suppresses the quantum coupling between electrons in a double quantum well structure. The microscopical theory of this effect is developed and confirmed experimentally. We have shown that the decrease of the…
We have experimentally studied the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum wells in relatively weak magnetic fields, where the Coulomb interaction between electrons exceeds the cyclotron splitting by a factor of a few…
A negative magnetoresistance under the in-plane magnetic field, reaching maximum 30-40% of its zero-field value in fields higher than ~12 T, has been found in wide Ge_{1-x}Si_x/Ge/p-Ge_{1-x}Si_x quantum wells (QW) containing the…
The results of the longitudinal and Hall magnetoresistivity measurements in the Shubnikov - de Haas oscillation regime for the HgCdTe/HgTe/HgCdTe heterostructures with a wide (20.3 nm) HgTe quantum well are presented. An anomalous phase…
Two-component systems with equal concentrations of electrons and holes exhibit non-saturating, linear magnetoresistance in classically strong magnetic fields. The effect is predicted to occur in finite-size samples at charge neutrality in…
We consider a 2D electron system in a strong magnetic field, where the local Hall resistivity $\rho_{xy}(\vec r)$ is a function of position and $\rho_{xx}(\vec r)$ is small compared to $\rho_{xy}$. Particularly if the correlations fall off…
We report a new manifestation of first-order magnetic transitions in two-dimensional electron systems. This phenomenon occurs in aluminum arsenide quantum wells with sufficiently low carrier densities and appears as a set of hysteretic…
We report anomalous structure in the magnetoresistance of SiO$_2$/Si(100)/SiO$_2$ quantum wells. When Landau levels of opposite valleys are driven through coincidence at the Fermi level, the longitudinal resistance displays elevations at…
An unusually wide plateau in the quantized Hall resistance has been revealed for a MQW heterostructure of wide p-GeSi / Ge / p-GeSi quantum wells with the Fermi energy comparable to the well bottom bending amplitude. This plateau exists in…
The magnetoresistance, Rxx, at even-denominator fractional fillings, of an ultra high quality two-dimensional electron system at T ~ 35 mK is observed to be strictly linear in magnetic field, B. While at 35mK Rxx is dominated by the integer…
The longitudinal resistivity at transitions between integer quantum Hall states in two-dimensional electrons confined to AlAs quantum wells is found to depend on the spin orientation of the partially-filled Landau level in which the Fermi…
In this study we have measured the magnetoresistance response of inverted HgTe quantum wells in the presence of a large parallel magnetic field up to 33 T is applied. We show that in quantum wells with inverted band structure a…
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…
The Hall and magnetoresistance of a two dimensional electron gas subjected to a magnetic field barrier parallel to the current direction is studied as function of the applied perpendicular magnetic field. The recent experimental results of…
The fractional quantum Hall effect in 2D electron gases submitted to large magnetic fields remains one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics. Historically, the first observed signature is a Hall resistance quantized to…