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Effect of strain on stripe phases in the quantum Hall regime
Sunanda P Koduvayur1, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Sergei Khlebnikov
1Department of Physics and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
Abstract:
Preferential orientation of the stripe phases in the quantum Hall (QH) regime has remained a puzzle since its discovery. We show experimentally and theoretically that the direction of high and low resistance of the two-dimensional (2D) hole gas in the QH regime can be controlled by an external strain. Depending on the sign of the in-plane shear strain, the Hartree-Fock energy of holes or electrons is minimized when the charge density wave (CDW) is oriented along the [110] or [110] directions. We suggest that shear strains due to internal electric fields in the growth direction are responsible for the observed orientation of CDW in pristine electron and hole samples.
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