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Correlation-enhanced effective mass of two-dimensional electrons in Mg(x)Zn(1-x)O/ZnO heterostructures
Y Kasahara1, Y Oshima, J Falson
1Quantum-Phase Electronics Center and Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan. kasahara@ap.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Abstract:
We performed combined magnetotransport and cyclotron resonance experiments on two-dimensional electron systems confined in the Mg(x)Zn(1-x)O/ZnO heterostructures over a wide range of carrier densities, from 1.9 to 12 × 10(11) cm(-2) (3.5 ~ r(s) ~ 10, where r(s) is the Wigner-Seitz radius). As the carrier density was reduced, the transport mass m(tr)* was strongly enhanced. In marked contrast, the effective masses determined from the cyclotron resonance m(CR)(*) were found to be independent of the carrier density and as large as the bulk effective mass. The large enhancement of m(tr)(*), which exceeds m(CR)(*) by ~ 60%, at the lowest carrier density with r(s) 10 is purely attributed to the strong electron correlation.
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