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Published on: January 21, 2016
New phase transition between partially and fully polarized quantum Hall states with charge and spin gaps at nu = 2/3
N Freytag1, Y Tokunaga, M Horvatić
1Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, MPI-FKF and CNRS, BP 166, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. freytag@polycnrs-gre.fr
Abstract:
The average electron spin polarization Rho of a two-dimensional electron gas confined in GaAs/GaAlAs multiple quantum wells was measured by NMR near the fractional quantum Hall state with filling factor nu = 2/3. Above this filling factor (2/3< or = nu < 0.85), a strong depolarization is observed corresponding to two spin flips per additional flux quantum. The most remarkable behavior of the polarization is observed at nu = 2/3, where a quantum phase transition from a partially polarized (Rho approximately 3/4) to a fully polarized (Rho = 1) state can be driven by increasing the ratio between the Zeeman and the Coulomb energy above a critical value eta(c) = Delta(Z)/Delta(C) = 0.0185.
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