Publication Date:
1998-08-07
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pellegrini V -- Pinczuk -- Dennis -- Plaut -- Pfeiffer -- West -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 7;281(5378):799-802.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉V. Pellegrini, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA, and Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Pisa, Italy. A. Pinczuk, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9694645" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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