Liquid Crystal Phases of Quantum Hall Systems

Details Liquid Crystal Phases of Quantum Hall Systems Liquid Crystal Phases of Quantum Hall Systems

1998-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9810151v1

Phys. Rev. B 59, 8065 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

9 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.59.8065

Mean-field calculations for the two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a large magnetic field with a partially filled Landau level with index $N\geq 2$ consistently yield ``stripe-ordered'' charge-density wave ground-states, for much the same reason that frustrated phase separation leads to stripe ordered states in doped Mott insulators. We have studied the effects of quantum and thermal fluctuations about such a state and show that they can lead to a set of electronic liquid crystalline states, particularly a stripe-nematic phase which is stable at $T>0$. Recent measurements of the longitudinal resistivity of a set of quantum Hall devices have revealed that these systems spontaneously develop, at low temepratures, a very large anisotropy. We interpret these experiments as evidence for a stripe nematic phase, and propose a general phase diagram for this system.

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