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Collective modes and the periodicity of quantum Hall stripes
I V Kukushkin1, V Umansky, K von Klitzing
1Max-Planck-Institute für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstraße 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Abstract:
We investigate the quantum Hall stripe phase at filling factor 9/2 at the microscopic level by probing the dispersion of its collective modes with the help of surface acoustic waves with wavelengths down to 60 nm. The dispersion is strongly anisotropic. It is highly dispersive and exhibits a roton minimum for wave vectors aligned along the easy transport direction. In the perpendicular direction, however, the dispersion is featureless, although not flat as predicted by theory. Oscillatory behavior in the absorption intensity of the collective mode with a wave vector perpendicular to the stripes is attributed to a commensurability effect. It allows us to extract the periodicity of the quantum Hall stripes.
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