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Recent study of a high-mobility 2D hole gas in a strained Ge quantum well revealed strong transport anisotropy in the quantum Hall regime when the magnetic field was tilted away from the sample normal. In the present study we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Q. Shi , M. A. Zudov , C. Morrison , M. Myronov

We report drastically different onset temperatures of the reentrant integer quantum Hall states in the second and third Landau level. This finding is in quantitative disagreement with the Hartree-Fock theory of the bubble phases which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Deng , J. D. Watson , L. P. Rokhinson , M. J. Manfra , G. A. Csáthy

Liquid crystalline phases of matter permeate nature and technology, with examples ranging from cell membranes to liquid-crystal displays. Remarkably, electronic liquid crystal phases can exist in two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Q. Qian , J. Nakamura , S. Fallahi , G. C. Gardner , M. J. Manfra

At low temperatures in ultraclean GaAs-AlGaAs heterojunctions, high fractional Landau levels break rotational symmetry, leading to increasingly anisotropic transport properties as temperature is lowered below $\sim$150mK. While the onset of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-16 Sayan Basak , Erica W. Carlson

The resistivity (R) of low mobility dilute 2D-electron gas in a n-InGaAs/GaAs double quantum well (DQW) exhibits the monotonic 'insulating-like' temperature dependence (dR/dT < 0) at T = 1.8 -- 70K in zero magnetic field. This temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. G. Arapov , S. V. Gudina , G. I. Harus , V. N. Neverov , N. G. Shelushinina , M. V. Yakunin , S. M. Podgornyh , E. A. Uskova , B. N. Zvonkov

It has long been speculated that quasi-two-dimensional superconductivity can reappear above its semiclassical upper critical field due to Landau quantization, yet this reentrant property has never been observed. Here, we argue that twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-27 Gaurav Chaudhary , A. H. MacDonald , M. R. Norman

We examined the magneto-transport behavior of electrons confined at the conducting LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface in the low sheet carrier density regime. We observed well resolved Shubnikov-de Haas quantum oscillations in the longitudinal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Yanwu Xie , Christopher Bell , Minu Kim , Hisashi Inoue , Yasuyuki Hikita , Harold Y. Hwang

Clean two-dimensional electron systems in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures exhibit anisotropic collective phases, the quantum Hall nematics, at high Landau level occupancy and low temperatures. An as yet unknown native symmetry-breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 J. Pollanen , K. B. Cooper , S. Brandsen , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We investigate topological insulating states in both two and three dimensions with the harmonic potential and strong spin-orbit couplings breaking the inversion symmetry. Landau-level like quantizations appear with the full 2D and 3D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Yi Li , Xiangfa Zhou , Congjun Wu

The temperature dependence of both components of the resistivity tensor $\varrho_{xx}(T)$ and $\varrho_{xy}(T)$ has been studied at T $\geq$ 4.2 K within IQHE plateaux around filling factors \nu=2 and \nu=4 of medium- -mobility GaAs/AlGaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Svoboda , G. Nachtwei , C. Breitlow , S. Heide , M. Cukr

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald , L. Smrčka , S. M. Girvin

A proposal of the existence of an {\em Anomalous} phase ($\mathcal{A}$ phase) [https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.056202 Das et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056202 (2023)] at the experimental range of moderate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Sudipto Das , Sahana Das , Sudhansu S. Mandal

In experiments on electron transport the macroscopic inhomogeneities in the sample play a fundamental role. In this paper and a subsequent one we introduce and develop a general formalism that captures the principal features of sample…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Karmakar , M. R. Gokhale , A. P. Shah , B. M. Arora , D. T. N. de Lang , A. de Visser , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. M. M. Pruisken

Many intriguing phenomena occur for electrons under strong magnetic fields. Recently, it was proposed that an appropriate strain texture in graphene can induce a synthetic gauge field, in which the electrons behave like in a real magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xinhua Wen , Chunyin Qiu , Yajuan Qi , Liping Ye , Manzhu Ke , Fan Zhang , Zhengyou Liu

When charge transport occurs under conditions like topological protection or ballistic motion, the conductance of low-dimensional systems often exhibits quantized values in units of $e^{2}/h$, where $e$ and $h$ are the elementary charge and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Baojuan Dong , Kai Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jianming Lu , Jianting Zhao , Fengcheng Wu , Jing Zhang , Zheng Han

We report on the experimental observation of the quantum oscillations in microwave magnetoabsorption of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas induced by Landau quantization. Using original resonance-cavity technique, we observe two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-03 O. M. Fedorych , M. Potemski , S. A. Studenikin , J. A. Gupta , Z. R. Wasilewski , I. A. Dmitriev

We observe pronounced transport anisotropies in magneto-transport experiments performed in the two-dimensional electron system of a Si/SiGe heterostructure. They occur when an in-plane field is used to tune two Landau levels with opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Zeitler , H. W. Schumacher , A. G. M. Jansen , R. J. Haug

The discovery of quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems inspired the topological classifications of electronic systems1,2. By stacking 2D quantum Hall effects with interlayer coupling much weaker than the Landau…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Pang Wang , Yafei Ren , Fangdong Tang , Peipei Wang , Tao Hou , Hualing Zeng , Liyuan Zhang , Zhenhua Qiao

We have performed low-temperature transport measurements on a GaAs two-dimensional electron system at low magnetic fields. Multiple temperature-independent points and accompanying oscillations are observed in the longitudinal resistivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-08 Tsai-Yu Huang , C. -T. Liang , Gil-Ho Kim , C. F. Huang , Chao-Ping Huang , Jyun-Ying Lin , Hsi-Sheng Goan , D. A. Ritchie

The principal axes of the recently discovered anisotropic phases of 2D electron systems at high Landau level occupancy are consistently oriented relative to the crystal axes of the host semiconductor. The nature of the native rotational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. B. Cooper , M. P. Lilly , J. P. Eisenstein , T. Jungwirth , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West