Thursday, August 23, 2012

1208.4480 (Yuto Kato et al.)

Geometric resonances in the magnetoresistance of hexagonal lateral
superlattices
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Yuto Kato, Akira Endo, Shingo Katsumoto, Yasuhiro Iye
We have measured magnetoresistance of hexagonal lateral superlattices. We observe three types of oscillations engendered by periodic potential modulation having hexagonal-lattice symmetry: amplitude modulation of the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, commensurability oscillations, and the geometric resonances of open orbits generated by Bragg reflections. The latter two reveal the presence of two characteristic periodicities, sqrt{3} a / 2 and a / 2, inherent in a hexagonal lattice with the lattice constant a. The formation of the hexagonal-superlattice minibands manifested by the observation of open orbits marks the first step toward realizing massless Dirac fermions in semiconductor 2DEGs.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4480

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