Observation of an Anisotropic Wigner Crystal.
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چکیده
We report a new correlated phase of two-dimensional charged carriers in high magnetic fields, manifested by an anisotropic insulating behavior at low temperatures. It appears in a large range of low Landau level fillings 1/3≲ν≲2/3 in hole systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells when the sample is tilted in magnetic field to an intermediate angle. The parallel field component (B_{∥}) leads to a crossing of the lowest two Landau levels, and an elongated hole wave function in the direction of B_{∥}. Under these conditions, the in-plane resistance exhibits an insulating behavior, with the resistance along B_{∥} about 10 times smaller than the resistance perpendicular to B_{∥}. We interpret this anisotropic insulating phase as a two-component, striped Wigner crystal.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 117 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016