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Microwave spectroscopic observation of distinct electron solid phases in wide quantum wells

Author(s): Hatke, AT; Liu, Yang; Magill, BA; Moon, BH; Engel, LW; et al

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Abstract: In high magnetic fields, two-dimensional electron systems can form a number of phases in which interelectron repulsion plays the central role, since the kinetic energy is frozen out by Landau quantization. These phases include the well-known liquids of the fractional quantum Hall effect, as well as solid phases with broken spatial symmetry and crystalline order. Solids can occur at the low Landau-filling termination of the fractional quantum Hall effect series but also within integer quantum Hall effects. Here we present microwave spectroscopy studies of wide quantum wells that clearly reveal two distinct solid phases, hidden within what in d.c. transport would be the zero diagonal conductivity of an integer quantum-Hall-effect state. Explanation of these solids is not possible with the simple picture of a Wigner solid of ordinary (quasi) electrons or holes.
Publication Date: Dec-2014
Electronic Publication Date: 20-Jun-2014
Citation: Hatke, AT, Liu, Yang, Magill, BA, Moon, BH, Engel, LW, Shayegan, M, Pfeiffer, LN, West, KW, Baldwin, KW. (2014). Microwave spectroscopic observation of distinct electron solid phases in wide quantum wells. Nature Communications, 5 (1), 10.1038/ncomms5154
DOI: doi:10.1038/ncomms5154
EISSN: 2041-1723
Type of Material: Journal Article
Journal/Proceeding Title: Nature Communications
Version: Final published version. This is an open access article.



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