Anomalous nematic state to stripe phase transition driven by in-plane magnetic fields
Abstract
Anomalous nematic states, recently discovered in ultraclean two-dimensional electron gas, emerge from quantum Hall stripe phases upon further cooling. These states are hallmarked by a local minimum (maximum) in the hard (easy) longitudinal resistance and by an incipient plateau in the Hall resistance in nearly half-filled Landau levels. In this work, we demonstrate that a modest in-plane magnetic field, applied either along $$\langle$$110$$\rangle$$ or $$\langle1\bar{1}0\rangle$$ crystal axis of GaAs, destroys anomalous nematic states and restores quantum Hall stripe phases aligned along their native $$\langle$$110$$\rangle$$ direction. These findings confirm that anomalous nematic states are distinct from other ground states and will assist future theories to identify their origin.
- Authors:
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[2];
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands)
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1850823
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0002567; SC0006671; DMR-1309578; GBMF9615; DMR 1420541; DMR-1157490; DMR-1644779
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; materials science; physics; fractional quantum Hall effect; magnetotransport; nematic order; nematic phase transition; quantum Hall effect; quantum transport; quantum wells; two-dimensional electron gas; resistivity measurements
Citation Formats
Fu, X., Shi, Qianhui, Zudov, M. A., Gardner, G. C., Watson, J. D., Manfra, M. J., Baldwin, K. W., Pfeiffer, L. N., and West, K. W. Anomalous nematic state to stripe phase transition driven by in-plane magnetic fields. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.104.l081301.
Fu, X., Shi, Qianhui, Zudov, M. A., Gardner, G. C., Watson, J. D., Manfra, M. J., Baldwin, K. W., Pfeiffer, L. N., & West, K. W. Anomalous nematic state to stripe phase transition driven by in-plane magnetic fields. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.l081301
Fu, X., Shi, Qianhui, Zudov, M. A., Gardner, G. C., Watson, J. D., Manfra, M. J., Baldwin, K. W., Pfeiffer, L. N., and West, K. W. Mon .
"Anomalous nematic state to stripe phase transition driven by in-plane magnetic fields". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.l081301. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1850823.
@article{osti_1850823,
title = {Anomalous nematic state to stripe phase transition driven by in-plane magnetic fields},
author = {Fu, X. and Shi, Qianhui and Zudov, M. A. and Gardner, G. C. and Watson, J. D. and Manfra, M. J. and Baldwin, K. W. and Pfeiffer, L. N. and West, K. W.},
abstractNote = {Anomalous nematic states, recently discovered in ultraclean two-dimensional electron gas, emerge from quantum Hall stripe phases upon further cooling. These states are hallmarked by a local minimum (maximum) in the hard (easy) longitudinal resistance and by an incipient plateau in the Hall resistance in nearly half-filled Landau levels. In this work, we demonstrate that a modest in-plane magnetic field, applied either along $\langle$110$\rangle$ or $\langle1\bar{1}0\rangle$ crystal axis of GaAs, destroys anomalous nematic states and restores quantum Hall stripe phases aligned along their native $\langle$110$\rangle$ direction. These findings confirm that anomalous nematic states are distinct from other ground states and will assist future theories to identify their origin.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.104.l081301},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 8,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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