Hysteresis and first-order phase transition in the two-dimensional electron gas

Piazza, V and Pellegrini, V and Beltram, F and Wegscheider, W and Bichler, M and Jungwirth, T and MacDonald, AH (2000) Hysteresis and first-order phase transition in the two-dimensional electron gas. PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES, 6 (1-4). pp. 108-111. ISSN 1386-9477, 1873-1759

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Abstract

We report experimental evidence of the first-order phase transitions in the two-dimensional electron gas formed in a gated wide GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well at even-integer quantum-Hall states, At the filling factor values of v = 2, 4 and low temperatures, crossing of Landau levels through the application of the gate bias yields a suppression of the quantum-Wall-state excitation gap and hysteretical behaviour of the diagonal resistivity in up and down sweeps of the magnetic field. Detailed many-body calculations indicate the occurrence of a first-order phase transition and allow the determination of the exact properties of the electron ground states involved in the transition. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: DOUBLE-LAYERS; QUANTUM; INSTABILITY; INTEGER; COLLAPSE; SYSTEM; quantum Hall effect; ferromagnetism; hysteresis
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Alumni or Retired Professors > Group Werner Wegscheider
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 21 May 2021 06:25
Last Modified: 21 May 2021 06:25
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/42877

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