Biomedical subjects

A Pinczuk

Publications and source records attributed to A Pinczuk.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2006

Transition from free to interacting composite fermions away from.

Spin excitations from a partially populated composite fermion level are studied above and below nu=1/3. In the range 2/7<nu<2/5, the experiments uncover significant departures from the noninteracting composite fermion picture that demonstrate the increasing impact of interactions as quasiparticle Landau levels are filled. The observed onset of a transition from free to interacting composite fermions could be linked to condensation into the higher order states suggested by transport experiments and numerical evaluations performed in the same filling factor range.

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PubMed2005

Splitting of long-wavelength modes of the fractional quantum hall liquid at nu = 1/3.

Resonant inelastic light scattering experiments at nu = 1/3 reveal a novel splitting of the long-wavelength modes in the low energy spectrum of quasi-particle excitations in the charge degree of freedom. We find a single peak at small wave vectors that splits into two distinct modes at larger wave vectors. The evidence of well-defined dispersive behavior at small wave vectors indicates a coherence of the quantum fluid in the micron length scale. We evaluate interpretations of long-wavelength modes of the electron liquid.

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PubMed2005

Composite-fermion spin excitations as nu approaches 1/2: interactions in the Fermi sea.

Measurements of low-lying spin excitations by inelastic light scattering unveil a delicate balance between spin reversal and Fermi energies in the Fermi sea of composite fermions that emerges in the limit of nu --> 1/2. The interplays between these two fundamental quasiparticle interactions are uncovered in lowest spin-flip excitations in which the spin orientation and Landau level index of composite fermions change simultaneously. A collapse of the spin-flip excitation gap as nu --> 1/2 is linked to vanishing quasiparticle energy level spacings and loss of full spin polarization.

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PubMed2003

Crossover and coexistence of quasiparticle excitations in the fractional quantum hall regime at nu < or =1/3.

New low-lying excitations are observed by inelastic light scattering at filling factors nu=p/(phip+/-1) of the fractional quantum Hall regime with phi=4. Coexisting with these modes throughout the range nu < or =1/3 are phi=2 excitations seen at 1/3. Both phi=2 and phi=4 excitations have distinct behaviors with temperature and filling factor. The abrupt first appearance of the new modes in the low-energy excitation spectrum at nu > or near 1/3 suggests a marked change in the quantum ground state on crossing the phi=2-->phi=4 boundary at nu=1/3.

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PubMed2003

Evidence of Landau levels and interactions in low-lying excitations of composite fermions at 1/3<or= nu <or=2/5.

Excitation modes in the range 2/5>or=nu>or=1/3 of the fractional quantum Hall regime are observed by resonant inelastic light scattering. Spectra of spin-reversed excitations suggest a structure of lowest spin-split Landau levels of composite fermions that is similar to that of electrons. Spin-flip energies determined from spectra reveal significant composite fermion interactions. The filling factor dependence of mode energies displays an abrupt change in the middle of the range when there is partial population of a composite fermion level.

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PubMed2001

Observation of multiple magnetorotons in the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Magnetorotons in the dispersions of collective gap excitation modes of fractional quantum Hall liquids are measured in resonant inelastic light scattering experiments. Two deep magnetoroton minima are observed at nu = 2/5, while a single deep minimum is resolved at nu = 1/3. The observations are the first evidence of multiple roton minima in gap excitations of the quantum liquids. The results support Chern-Simons and composite fermion calculations that predict multiple roton minima for states with nu>1/3.

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PubMed2000

Inelastic light scattering by gap excitations of fractional quantum hall states at 1/3 </= nu </= 2/3

We report observations of collective gap excitations of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at filling factors nu = p/(2p+1) ( p = integer), for 1/3</=nu</=2/3, by inelastic light scattering. The collective gap energies at nu = 1/3, 2/5, and 3/7 show a drastic decrease as the value nu = 1/2 is approached. These energies and the one at nu = 3/5 display the linear scaling with (e(2)/epsilonl(0))/|2p+1| that is characteristic of composite fermions in Chern-Simons gauge fields. In a narrow range of nu centered at 1/2, where the FQH gaps collapse, we observe a new excitation mode which exists only at temperatures below 150 mK.

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PubMed1998

Evidence of soft-mode quantum phase transitions in electron double layers

Inelastic light scattering by low-energy spin-excitations reveals three distinct configurations of spin of electron double layers in gallium arsenide quantum wells at even-integer quantum Hall states. The transformations among these spin states appear as quantum phase transitions driven by the interplay between Coulomb interactions and Zeeman splittings. One of the transformations correlates with the emergence of a spin-flip intersubband excitation at vanishingly low energy and provides direct evidence of a link between quantum phase transitions and soft collective excitations in a two-dimensional electron system.

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PubMed1996