Observation of an Even-odd Anisotropic Transport in High Landau Levels

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Abstract

Magnetotransport experiments (including tilt fields) were performed on ultrahigh mobility L-shaped Hall-bar samples of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. The low-temperature longitudinal resistance Rxx data demonstrate that a striking even-odd anisotropic transport exists only along the [110] direction at half filling in $N\ge $2 high Landau levels. Although the origin for the peculiar even-odd anisotropy remains unclear, we propose that the coupling strength between electrons within the same Landau level and between the neighboring two Landau levels should be considered in future studies. The tilt field data show that the in-plane field can suppress the formation of both bubble and stripe phases.

*The work at IOP was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under the grant No.2014CB920904 and 2011CB921702.The work at Princeton University was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through the EPiQS initiative Grant GBMF4420

Authors

  • Guangtong Liu

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Changli Yang

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Qin Wang

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yuying Zhu

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yuan Pang

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Jie Fan

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Xiunian Jing

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Zhongqing Ji

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Li Lu

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Rui-Rui Du

    • International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
    • Rice University
    • Peking University
  • Loren Pfeiffer

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • Ken West

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA