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Title: Single-valley quantum Hall ferromagnet in a dilute MgxZn1-xO/ZnO strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system

Abstract

We investigate the spin susceptibility (g*m*) of dilute two-dimensional (2D) electrons confined at the MgxZn1-xO/ZnO heterointerface. Magnetotransport measurements show a four-fold enhancement of g*m*, dominated by the increase in the Landé g-factor. The g-factor enhancement leads to a ferromagnetic instability of the electron gas as evidenced by sharp resistance spikes. At high magnetic field, the large g*m* leads to full spin polarization, where we found sudden increase in resistance around the filling factors of half-integer, accompanied by complete disappearance of fractional quantum Hall (QH) states. Along with its large effective mass and the high electron mobility, our result indicates that the ZnO 2D system is ideal for investigating the effect of electron correlations in the QH regime.

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Journal Name:
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
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Journal Name: Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Journal Volume: 85 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1098-0121
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American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Kozuka, Y., Tsukazaki, A., Maryenko, D., Falson, J., Bell, C., Kim, M., Hikita, Y., Hwang, H. Y., and Kawasaki, M. Single-valley quantum Hall ferromagnet in a dilute MgxZn1-xO/ZnO strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075302.
Kozuka, Y., Tsukazaki, A., Maryenko, D., Falson, J., Bell, C., Kim, M., Hikita, Y., Hwang, H. Y., & Kawasaki, M. Single-valley quantum Hall ferromagnet in a dilute MgxZn1-xO/ZnO strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075302
Kozuka, Y., Tsukazaki, A., Maryenko, D., Falson, J., Bell, C., Kim, M., Hikita, Y., Hwang, H. Y., and Kawasaki, M. Fri . "Single-valley quantum Hall ferromagnet in a dilute MgxZn1-xO/ZnO strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075302.
@article{osti_1099093,
title = {Single-valley quantum Hall ferromagnet in a dilute MgxZn1-xO/ZnO strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system},
author = {Kozuka, Y. and Tsukazaki, A. and Maryenko, D. and Falson, J. and Bell, C. and Kim, M. and Hikita, Y. and Hwang, H. Y. and Kawasaki, M.},
abstractNote = {We investigate the spin susceptibility (g*m*) of dilute two-dimensional (2D) electrons confined at the MgxZn1-xO/ZnO heterointerface. Magnetotransport measurements show a four-fold enhancement of g*m*, dominated by the increase in the Landé g-factor. The g-factor enhancement leads to a ferromagnetic instability of the electron gas as evidenced by sharp resistance spikes. At high magnetic field, the large g*m* leads to full spin polarization, where we found sudden increase in resistance around the filling factors of half-integer, accompanied by complete disappearance of fractional quantum Hall (QH) states. Along with its large effective mass and the high electron mobility, our result indicates that the ZnO 2D system is ideal for investigating the effect of electron correlations in the QH regime.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075302},
journal = {Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics},
number = 7,
volume = 85,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2012},
month = {Fri Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2012}
}

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