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Zhu Z, Fu L, Sheng DN. Numerical Study of Quantum Hall Bilayers at Total Filling ν_{T}=1: A New Phase at Intermediate Layer Distances. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:177601. [PMID: 29219462 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.177601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We study the phase diagram of quantum Hall bilayer systems with total filing ν_{T}=1/2+1/2 of the lowest Landau level as a function of layer distances d. Based on numerical exact diagonalization calculations, we obtain three distinct phases, including an exciton superfluid phase with spontaneous interlayer coherence at small d, a composite Fermi liquid at large d, and an intermediate phase for 1.1<d/l_{B}<1.8 (l_{B} is the magnetic length). The transition from the exciton superfluid to the intermediate phase is identified by (i) a dramatic change in the Berry curvature of the ground state under twisted boundary conditions on the two layers and (ii) an energy level crossing of the first excited state. The transition from the intermediate phase to the composite Fermi liquid is identified by the vanishing of the exciton superfluid stiffness. Furthermore, from our finite-size study, the energy cost of transferring one electron between the layers shows an even-odd effect and possibly extrapolates to a finite value in the thermodynamic limit, indicating the enhanced intralayer correlation. Our identification of an intermediate phase and its distinctive features shed new light on the theoretical understanding of the quantum Hall bilayer system at total filling ν_{T}=1.
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- Zheng Zhu
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, California 91330, USA
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Tilahun D, Lee B, Hankiewicz EM, MacDonald AH. Quantum Hall superfluids in topological insulator thin films. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:246401. [PMID: 22243013 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.246401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Three-dimensional topological insulators have protected Dirac-cone surface states. In this Letter we argue that gapped excitonic superfluids with spontaneous coherence between top and bottom surfaces can occur in the topological insulator (TI)-thin-film quantum Hall regime. We find that the large dielectric constants of TI materials increase the layer separation range over which coherence survives and decrease the superfluid sound velocity, but have little influence on the superfluid density or on the charge gap. The coherent state at total Landau-level filling factor νT=0 is predicted to be free of edge modes, qualitatively altering its transport phenomenology compared to the widely studied case of νT=1 in GaAs double-quantum wells.
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- Dagim Tilahun
- Department of Physics, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666, USA
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Yoon Y, Tiemann L, Schmult S, Dietsche W, von Klitzing K, Wegscheider W. Interlayer tunneling in counterflow experiments on the excitonic condensate in quantum Hall bilayers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:116802. [PMID: 20366496 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.116802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The effect of tunneling on the transport properties of quantum Hall double layers in the regime of the excitonic condensate at a total filling factor one is studied in counterflow experiments. If the tunnel current I is smaller than a critical I{C}, tunneling is large and is effectively shorting the two layers. For I>I{C} tunneling becomes negligible. Surprisingly, the transition between the two tunneling regimes has only a minor impact on the features of the filling-factor one state as observed in magnetotransport, but at currents exceeding I{C} the resistance along the layers increases rapidly.
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- Y Yoon
- Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Finck ADK, Eisenstein JP, Pfeiffer LN, West KW. Quantum Hall exciton condensation at full spin polarization. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:016801. [PMID: 20366378 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.016801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Using Coulomb drag as a probe, we explore the excitonic phase transition in quantum Hall bilayers at nu(T) = 1 as a function of Zeeman energy E(Z). The critical layer separation (d/l)(c) for exciton condensation initially increases rapidly with E(Z), but then reaches a maximum and begins a gentle decline. At high E(Z), where both the excitonic phase at small d/l and the compressible phase at large d/l are fully spin polarized, we find that the width of the transition, as a function of d/l, is much larger than at small E(Z) and persists in the limit of zero temperature. We discuss these results in the context of two models in which the system contains a mixture of the two fluids.
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- A D K Finck
- Condensed Matter Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Karmakar B, Pellegrini V, Pinczuk A, Pfeiffer LN, West KW. First-order quantum phase transition of excitons in quantum Hall bilayers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 102:036802. [PMID: 19257378 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.036802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We show that the quantum phase transformation between compressible metallic and incompressible excitonic states in the coupled bilayers at total Landau level filling factor nuT=1 becomes discontinuous (first order) by impacts of different terms of the electron-electron interactions that prevail on weak residual disorder. The evidence is based on precise determinations of the excitonic order parameter by inelastic light scattering measurements close to the phase boundary. While there is marked softening of low-lying excitations, our experiments underpin the roles of competing order parameters linked to quasiparticle correlations in removing the divergence of quantum fluctuations.
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Giudici P, Muraki K, Kumada N, Hirayama Y, Fujisawa T. Spin-dependent phase diagram of the nuT=1 bilayer electron system. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 100:106803. [PMID: 18352219 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.106803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We show that the spin degree of freedom plays a decisive role in the phase diagram of the nu(T)=1 bilayer electron system using an in-plane field B( parallel) in the regime of negligible tunneling. We observe that the phase boundary separating the quantum Hall and compressible states at d/l(B) = 1.90 for B(parallel) = 0 (d: interlayer distance, l(B): magnetic length) steadily shifts with B(parallel) before saturating at d/l(B) = 2.33 when the compressible state becomes fully polarized. Using a simple model for the energies of the competing phases, we can quantitatively describe our results. A new phase diagram as a function of d/l(B) and the Zeeman energy is established and its implications as to the nature of the phase transition are discussed.
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- P Giudici
- NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi 243-0198, Japan
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Champagne AR, Eisenstein JP, Pfeiffer LN, West KW. Evidence for a finite-temperature phase transition in a bilayer quantum Hall system. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 100:096801. [PMID: 18352740 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.096801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We study the Josephson-like interlayer tunneling signature of the strongly correlated nuT=1 quantum Hall phase in bilayer two-dimensional electron systems as a function of the layer separation, temperature, and interlayer charge imbalance. Our results offer strong evidence that a finite temperature phase transition separates the interlayer coherent phase from incoherent phases which lack strong interlayer correlations. The transition temperature is dependent on both the layer spacing and charge imbalance between the layers.
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- A R Champagne
- Condensed Matter Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91125, USA
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Levchenko A, Kamenev A. Coulomb drag at zero temperature. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 100:026805. [PMID: 18232906 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.026805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We show that the Coulomb drag effect exhibits saturation at small temperatures, when calculated to the third order in the interlayer interactions. The zero-temperature transresistance is of the order h/(e2g3), where g is the dimensionless sheet conductance. The effect is therefore the strongest in low mobility samples. This behavior should be contrasted with the conventional (second order) prediction that the transresistance scales as a certain power of temperature and is (almost) mobility independent. The result demonstrates that the zero-temperature drag is not an unambiguous signature of a strongly coupled state in double-layer systems.
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- Alex Levchenko
- Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Ye J, Jiang L. Quantum phase transitions in bilayer quantum hall systems at a total filling factor nuT=1. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2007; 98:236802. [PMID: 17677927 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.236802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2006] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We construct a quantum Ginsburg-Landau theory to study the quantum phase transition from the excitonic superfluid to a possible pseudospin density wave (PSDW) at some intermediate distances driven by the magnetoroton minimum collapsing at a finite wave vector. We explicitly show that the PSDW takes a square lattice structure. We suggest the existence of zero-point quantum fluctuation generated vacancies in the PSDW and that correlated hopping of vacancies in the active and passive layers in the PSDW state leads to very large and temperature dependent drag consistent with the experimental data. Comparisons with previous numerical calculations are made. Further experimental implications are given.
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- Jinwu Ye
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA
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Luin S, Pellegrini V, Pinczuk A, Dennis BS, Pfeiffer LN, West KW. Resonant rayleigh scattering from bilayer quantum Hall phases. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 97:216802. [PMID: 17155764 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.216802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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We observe resonant Rayleigh scattering of light from quantum Hall bilayers at Landau level filling factor nu = 1. The effect arises below 1 Kelvin when electrons are in the incompressible quantum Hall phase with strong interlayer correlations. Marked changes in the Rayleigh scattering signal in response to application of an in-plane magnetic field indicate that the unexpected temperature dependence is linked to formation of a nonuniform electron fluid close to the phase transition towards the compressible state. These results demonstrate a new realm of study in which resonant Rayleigh scattering methods probe quantum phases of electrons in semiconductor heterostructures.
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- Stefano Luin
- NEST CNR-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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Kumada N, Muraki K, Hashimoto K, Hirayama Y. Spin degree of freedom in the nu=1 bilayer electron system investigated by nuclear spin relaxation. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 94:096802. [PMID: 15783987 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.096802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The nuclear-spin-relaxation rate 1/T(1) has been measured in a bilayer electron system at and around total Landau level filling factor nu=1. The measured 1/T(1), which probes electron spin fluctuations, is found to increase gradually from the quantum Hall (QH) state at low fields through a phase transition to the compressible state at high fields. Furthermore, 1/T(1) in the QH state shows a noticeable increase away from nu=1. These results demonstrate that, as opposed to common assumption, the electron spin degree of freedom is not completely frozen either in the QH or the compressible states.
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- N Kumada
- NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi 243-0198, Japan
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Spielman IB, Tracy LA, Eisenstein JP, Pfeiffer LN, West KW. Spin transition in strongly correlated bilayer two-dimensional electron systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 94:076803. [PMID: 15783841 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.076803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Using a combination of heat pulse and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, we demonstrate that the phase boundary separating the interlayer phase coherent quantum Hall effect at nu(T) = 1 in bilayer electron gases from the weakly coupled compressible phase depends upon the spin polarization of the nuclei in the host semiconductor crystal. Our results strongly suggest that, contrary to the usual assumption, the transition is attended by a change in the electronic spin polarization.
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- I B Spielman
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Wang Z. Tunneling, dissipation, and superfluid transition in quantum Hall bilayers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2004; 92:136803. [PMID: 15089637 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.92.136803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We study bilayer quantum Hall systems at total Landau level filling factor nu=1 in the presence of interlayer tunneling and coupling to a dissipative normal fluid. Describing the dynamics of the interlayer phase by an effective quantum dissipative XY model, we show that there exists a critical dissipation sigma(c) set by the conductance of the normal fluid. For sigma>sigma(c), interlayer tunnel splitting drives the system to a nu=1 quantum Hall state. For sigma<sigma(c), interlayer tunneling is irrelevant at low temperatures; the system exhibits an excitonic superfluid transition to a collective quantum Hall state supported by spontaneous interlayer phase coherence. The resulting phase structure and the behavior of the in-plane and tunneling currents are studied in connection to experiments.
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- Ziqiang Wang
- Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
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Joglekar YN, Balatsky AV, MacDonald AH. Noise spectroscopy and interlayer phase coherence in bilayer quantum Hall systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2004; 92:086803. [PMID: 14995805 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.92.086803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Bilayer quantum Hall systems develop strong interlayer phase coherence when the distance between layers is comparable to the typical distance between electrons within a layer. The phase-coherent state has until now been investigated primarily via transport measurements. We argue here that interlayer current and charge-imbalance noise studies in these systems will be able to address some of the key experimental questions. We show that the characteristic frequency of current noise is that of the zero wave vector collective mode, which is sensitive to the degree of order in the system. Local electric potential noise measured in a plane above the bilayer system, on the other hand, is sensitive to finite-wave-vector collective modes and, hence, to the soft-magnetoroton picture of the order-disorder phase transition.
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- Yogesh N Joglekar
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA
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Sheng DN, Balents L, Wang Z. Phase diagram for quantum hall bilayers at nu=1. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2003; 91:116802. [PMID: 14525450 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.116802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We present a phase diagram for a double quantum well bilayer electron gas in the quantum Hall regime at a total filling factor nu=1, based on exact numerical calculations of the topological Chern number matrix and the (interlayer) superfluid density. We find three phases: a quantized Hall state with pseudospin superfluidity, a quantized Hall state with pseudospin "gauge-glass" order, and a decoupled composite Fermi liquid. Comparison with experiments provides a consistent explanation of the observed quantum Hall plateau, Hall drag plateau, and vanishing Hall drag resistance, as well as the zero-bias conductance peak effect, and suggests some interesting points to pursue experimentally.
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- D N Sheng
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, California 91330, USA
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Simon SH, Rezayi EH, Milovanovic MV. Coexistence of composite bosons and composite fermions in nu = 1/2 + 1/2 quantum Hall bilayers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2003; 91:046803. [PMID: 12906685 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.046803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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In bilayer quantum Hall systems at filling fractions near nu=1/2+1/2, as the spacing d between the layers is continuously decreased, intralayer correlations must be replaced by interlayer correlations, and the composite fermion (CF) Fermi seas at large d must eventually be replaced by a composite boson (CB) condensate or "111 state" at small d. We propose a scenario where CBs and CFs coexist in two interpenetrating fluids in the transition. Trial wave functions describing these mixed CB-CF states compare very favorably with exact diagonalization results. A Chern-Simons transport theory is constructed that is compatible with experiment.
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- Steven H Simon
- Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA
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Kellogg M, Eisenstein JP, Pfeiffer LN, West KW. Bilayer quantum hall systems at nu(T)=1: coulomb drag and the transition from weak to strong interlayer coupling. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2003; 90:246801. [PMID: 12857210 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.90.246801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2002] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Measurements revealing anomalously large frictional drag at the transition between the weakly and strongly coupled regimes of a bilayer two-dimensional electron system at total Landau level filling factor nu(T)=1 are reported. This result suggests the existence of fluctuations, either static or dynamic, near the phase boundary separating the quantized Hall state at small layer separations from the compressible state at larger separations. Interestingly, the anomalies in drag seem to persist to larger layer separations than does interlayer phase coherence as detected in tunneling.
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- M Kellogg
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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