DETECTION OF COMPOSITE FERMIONS BY MAGNETIC FOCUSING

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作者
GOLDMAN, VJ
SU, B
JAIN, JK
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[1] Department of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.2065
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We report on transverse magnetic focusing experiments in two-dimensional electron systems in the vicinity of Landau level filling factor nu = 1/2. We observe quasiperiodic magnetic focusing peaks for nu < 1/2 and no periodic structure for nu > 1/2 in several double-constriction GaAs heterojunction samples. The quasiperiod and the direction of focusing in all of these samples are in good quantitative agreement with that expected from semiclassical transport by composite fermions of charge - Absolute value of e.
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