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Landau level crossing in a spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional electron gas

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905492· OSTI ID:22395647
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  1. International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
We have studied experimentally the Landau level (LL) spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in an In{sub 0.53}Ga{sub 0.47}As/InP quantum well structure by means of low-temperature magneto-transport coincidence measurement in vector magnetic fields. It is well known that LL crossing occurs in tilted magnetic fields due to a competition between cyclotron energy and Zeeman effect. Remarkably, here we observe an additional type of level-crossing resulting from a competition between Rashba and Zeeman splitting in a small magnetic field, consistent with the theoretical prediction for strongly spin-orbit coupled 2DEG.
OSTI ID:
22395647
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 106; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English