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BS Dennis

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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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