Tuesday, February 12, 2013

1302.2540 (Dobromir Kamburov et al.)

Composite Fermions with Tunable Fermi Contour Anisotropy    [PDF]

Dobromir Kamburov, Yang Liu, Mansour Shayegan, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Kenneth W. West, Kirk W. Baldwin
The composite fermion formalism elegantly describes some of the most fascinating behaviours of interacting two-dimensional carriers at low temperatures and in strong perpendicular magnetic fields. In this framework, carriers minimize their energy by attaching two flux quanta and forming new quasi-particles, the so-called composite fermions. Thanks to the flux attachment, when a Landau level is half-filled, the composite fermions feel a vanishing effective magnetic field and possess a Fermi surface with a well-defined Fermi contour. Our measurements in a high-quality two-dimensional hole system confined to a GaAs quantum well demonstrate that a parallel magnetic field can significantly distort the hole-flux composite fermion Fermi contour.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2540

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