MEASUREMENT OF FERMI-SURFACE DISTORTION IN DOUBLE QUANTUM-WELLS FROM INPLANE MAGNETIC-FIELDS

被引:68
作者
BOEBINGER, GS
PASSNER, A
PFEIFFER, LN
WEST, KW
机构
[1] AT and T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1991年 / 43卷 / 15期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.43.12673
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
In double quantum wells with interwell tunneling, we find that a small in-plane magnetic field substantially alters the beating observed in Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations. This phenomenon is attributed to distortion of the Fermi surface due to mixing of the symmetric and antisymmetric double-well states. The measured magnitude of the distortion is in good quantitative agreement with a calculation of the symmetric and antisymmetric mixing from the in-plane magnetic field.
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页码:12673 / 12676
页数:4
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