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Combined states of the fractional quantum Hall effect in bilayer electron systems
Created by , 2025-09-26 14:12:23
Fractional quantum Hall effect states at total Landau level filling factors $\nu=\nu_{\rm Q}=8/3$, 7/3, 4/3, and 5/4 were investigated in a bilayer electron system created in a wide (60 nm) GaAs quantum well placed between two field electrodes (gates). It was found that these fractional states appear or greatly enhance when a magnetic field is tilted from the normal to the plane of the electron system and integer quantum Hall effect states at $\nu=\nu_{\rm Q}=1$ and 2 become essentially weaker or even disappear. Using a new experimental technique consisting of simultaneous measurements of the magnetoresistance and Hall resistance, as well as two capacitances between the gates and the electron system [1, 2], we have established that these fractions arise under conditions when an incompressible state is realized in the layer with a higher electron density at filling factors in this layer $\nu_{\rm TL}$ equal to 2 and 1. This observation allows the interpretation of fractional states at filling factors $\nu_{\rm Q}=8/3$, 7/3, and 4/3 as combinations of incompressible states of the integer quantum Hall effect in one layer and the fractional quantum Hall effect in the other layer (8/3=2+2/3, 7/3=2+1/3, 4/3=1+1/3). The state of the fractional quantum Hall effect at a total filling factor of 5/4 with an even denominator cannot be interpreted in this way [3] and indicates the existence of unexplored effects of interlayer electron correlation when incompressible state at a filling factor of unity exists in one of the layers. It has been established that incompressible states at $\nu_{\rm TL}=2$ and 1 are broadened in the magnetic field due to the redistribution of electrons between the layers, as a result of which, within one such state, two different fractional quantum Hall effect states can be observed (states at total filling factors $\nu_{\rm Q}=7/3$ and 8/3 in the figure). The magnetoresistance $R_{\rm xx}$, Hall resistance $R_{\rm xy}$, and magnetocapacitance $C_{\rm TG}$ between the top gate and the electron system versus inverse value $\nu^{-1}$ of the total filling factor $\nu$, which is proportional to the magnetic field component perpendicular to the system. The vertical dashed lines mark the expected positions $\nu_{\rm Q}$ of several quantum Hall effect states. The values of the quantum plateaus $R_{\rm xy}=\nu_{\rm Q}^{-1}h/e^2$ for these states are shown by the horizontal segments. The horizontal brackets mark the broad magnetocapacitance minima corresponding to incompressible states in the top electron layer at filling factors $\nu_{\rm TL}=2$ and 1. The tilt angle is equal to $45^{\circ}$, temperature $T=45$~mK.
1. S. I. Dorozhkin, A. A. Kapustin, I. B. Fedorov, V. Umansky, K. von Klitzing, and J.H. Smet, J. Appl. Phys. 123, 084301 (2018)
S. I. Dorozhkin, A. A. Kapustin, and J.H. Smet |
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