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Microwave pinning-mode resonances found around integer quantum Hall effects, are a signature of crystallized quasiparticles or holes. Application of in-plane magnetic field to these crystals, increasing the Zeeman energy, has negligible effect on the resonances just below Landau level filling $ u=2$, but increases the pinning frequencies near $ u=1$, particularly for smaller quasiparticle/hole densities. The charge dynamics near $ u=1$, characteristic of a crystal order, are affected by spin, in a manner consistent with a Skyrme crystal.
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Microwave spectroscopy within the Landau filling ($ u$) range of the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) has revealed pinning mode resonances signifying Wigner solids (WSs) composed of quasi-particles or -holes. We study pinning modes of WSs in wide quantum wells (WQWs) for $ 0.8le ule1.2$, varying the density, $n$, and tilting the sample by angle $theta$ in the magnetic field. Three distinct WS phases are accessed. One phase, S1, is phenomenologically the same as the WS observed in the IQHEs of narrow QWs. The second phase, S2, exists at $ u$ further from $ u=1$ than S1, and requires a sufficiently large $n$ or $theta$, implying S2 is stabilized by the Zeeman energy. The melting temperatures of S1 and S2, estimated from the disappearance of the pinning mode, show different behavior vs $ u$. At the largest $n$ or $theta$, S2 disappears and the third phase, S1A, replaces S1, also exhibiting a pinning mode. This occurs as the WQW $ u=1$ IQHE becomes a two-component, Halperin-Laughlin $pone$ state. We interpret S1A as a WS of the excitations of $pone$, which has not been previously observed.
Thermal measurements on a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure reveal that the state of the confined two-dimensional electrons dramatically affects the nuclear-spin diffusion near Landau level filling factor u=1. The experiments provide quantitative evidence that the sharp peak in the temperature dependence of heat capacity near u=1 is due to an enhanced nuclear-spin diffusion from the GaAs quantum wells into the AlGaAs barriers. We discuss the physical origin of this enhancement in terms the possible Skyrme solid-liquid phase transition.
Hyperfine interactions between electron and nuclear spins in the quantum Hall regime provide powerful means for manipulation and detection of nuclear spins. In this work we demonstrate that significant changes in nuclear spin polarization can be created by applying an electric current in a 2-dimensional electron system at Landau level filling factor nu=1/2. Electron spin transitions at nu= 2/3 and 1/2 are utilized for the measurement of the nuclear spin polarization. Consistent results are obtained from these two different methods of nuclear magnetometry. The finite thickness of the electron wavefunction is found to be important even for a narrow quantum well. The current induced effect on nuclear spins can be attributed to electron heating and the efficient coupling between the nuclear and electron spin systems at nu=1/2. The electron temperature, elevated by the current, can be measured with a thermometer based on the measurement of the nuclear spin relaxation rate. The nuclear spin polarization follows a Curie law dependence on the electron temperature. This work also allows us to evaluate the electron g-factor in high magnetic fields as well as the polarization mass of composite fermions.
We have measured magnetic field dependences of the attenuation and velocity of surface acoustic waves in a high-mobility $n$-GaAs/AlGaAs structure with a wide quantum well. The results allowed us to find the complex conductance, $sigma(omega)$, of the heterostructure for different frequencies, temperatures and magnetic fields near filling factors $ u=1, 2$. Observed behavior of $sigma(omega)$ versus magnetic field outside close vicinities of integer fillings reveals an oscillation pattern indicative of the rich fractional quantum Hall effect. Our result is that in very close vicinities of integer filling factors the AC response of a high-mobility two-dimensional structures behaves as that of a two-dimensional system of localized electrons. Namely, both real and imaginary parts of the complex AC conductance at low temperatures agree with the predictions for the two-site model for a two-dimensional hopping system. Another result is the specific temperature dependences of $sigma(omega)$, which are extremely sensitive to the filling factor value. These dependences indicate a sharp crossover between the localized modes and a pinned Wigner crystal.
We report low temperature ($T$) heat capacity ($C$) data on a multiple-quantum-well GaAs/AlGaAs sample in the quantum Hall regime. Relative to its low field magnitude, $C$ exhibits up to 10^5-fold enhancement near $ u$=1 where Skyrmions arethe ground state of the confined two-dimensional electrons. We attribute the large $C$ to a Skyrmion-induced, strong coupling of the nuclear spin system to the lattice. The data are consistent with the Schottky nuclear heat capacity of Ga and As atoms in the quantum wells, except at very low $T$ where $C$ vs $T$ exhibits a remarkably sharp peak suggestive of a phase transition in the electronic system.
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