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Two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) confined in quantum wells at insulating oxide interfaces have attracted much attention as their electronic properties display a rich physics with various electronics orders such as superconductivity and…

We use dynamic scanning capacitance microscopy (DSCM) to image compressible and incompressible strips at the edge of a Hall bar in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) regime. This method gives access to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 M. E. Suddards , A. Baumgartner , M. Henini , C. J. Mellor

We use spin-density-functional theory to study recently reported hysteretic magnetoresistance \rho_{xx} spikes in Mn-based 2D electron gases [Jaroszy\'{n}ski et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2002)]. We find hysteresis loops in our calculated Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-13 Henrique J. P. Freire , J. Carlos Egues

Magnetoresistance measurements have been performed on a gated two-dimensional electron system (2DES) separated by a thin barrier layer from a layer of InAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs). Clear features of the quantum Hall effect were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Takehana , T. Takamasu , G. Kido , H. Henini

A decade of intense research on two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals has revealed that their properties can differ greatly from those of the parent compound. These differences are governed by changes in the band structure due to quantum…

The quantum Hall effect is observed in a two-dimensional electron gas formed in millimeter-scale hydrogenated graphene, with a mobility less than 10 $\mathrm{cm^{2}/V\cdot s}$ and corresponding Ioffe-Regel disorder parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 J. Guillemette , S. S. Sabri , B. Wu , K. Bennaceur , P. E. Gaskell , M. Savard , P. L. Lévesque , F. Mahvash , A. Guermoune , M. Siaj , R. Martel , T. Szkopek , G. Gervais

We have realized a two-dimensional hole system (2DHS), in which the 2DHS is induced at an atomically flat hydrogen-terminated Si(111) surface by a negative gate voltage applied across a vacuum cavity. Hole densities up to $7.5\times10^{11}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Binhui Hu , Tomasz M. Kott , Robert N. McFarland , B. E. Kane

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

In this article we review the quantum Hall physics of graphene based two-dimensional electron systems, with a special focus on recent experimental and theoretical developments. We explain why graphene and bilayer graphene can be viewed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yafis Barlas , Kun Yang , A. H. MacDonald

We study the onset of intrinsic bistability and accompanying hysteresis in a single quantum point contact (QPC) with in-plane side gates in the presence of lateral spin-orbit coupling. The hysteresis in the conductance versus common gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Charles , M. Cahay , R. S. Newrock

The quantum Hall effect is investigated in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas on the surface of a cylinder. The novel topology leads to a spatially varying filling factor along the current path. The resulting inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 K. -J. Friedland , A. Siddiki , R. Hey , H. Kostial , A. Riedel , D. K. Maude

We present a systematical experimental investigation of an unusual transport phenomenon observed in two dimensional electron gases in Si/SiGe heterostructures under integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) conditions. This phenomenon emerges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Sailer , A. Wild , V. Lang , A. Siddiki , D. Bougeard

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a spin-orbit interaction to a long-wave-length electromagnetic excitation. We observe that the transverse electric field creates spin polarization perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Ivar Martin

We review recent investigations of the femtosecond non-linear optical response of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a strong magnetic field. We probe the Quantum Hall (QH) regime for filling factors $\nu \sim 1$. Our focus is on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-05 K. M. Dani , E. G. Kavousanaki , J. Tignon , D. S. Chemla , I. E. Perakis

The effect of a one-dimensional periodic electrostatic modulation on quantum Hall systems with filling factor \nu=1 is studied. We propose that, either when the amplitude of the modulation potential or the tilt angle of the magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Che Chang , Min-Fong Yang

We study theoretically transverse photoconductivity induced by circularly polarized radiation, i.e. the photovoltaic Hall effect, and linearly polarized radiation causing intraband optical transitions in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 M. V. Durnev

We obtain analytic formulas for the frequency-dependent spin-Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of impurities, linear spin-orbit Rashba interaction, and external magnetic field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale

Quantum Hall effect (QHE) is a macroscopic manifestation of quantized states which only occurs in confined two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) systems. Experimentally, QHE is hosted in high mobility 2DEG with large external magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Gang Qiu , Yixiu Wang , Yifan Nie , Yongping Zheng , Kyeongjae Cho , Wenzhuo Wu , Peide D. Ye

It is shown that the observed Quantum Hall Effect in epitaxial layers of heavily doped n-type GaAs with thickness (50-140 nm) larger the mean free path of the conduction electrons (15-30 nm) and, therefore, with a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. S. Murzin , I. Claus , A. G. M. Jansen , N. T. Moshegov , A. I. Toropov , K. Eberl

The edge of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in a magnetic field consists of one-dimensional (1D) edge-channels that arise from the confining electric field at the edge of the specimen$^{1-3}$. The crossed electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Kang , H. L. Stormer , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West