Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1995-06-19
Phys. Rev. B 52, 17366 (1995).
Physics
Condensed Matter
14 pages, compressed Postscript file
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.52.17366
It is known experimentally that at not very large filling factors $\nu$ the quantum Hall conductivity peaks corresponding to the same Landau level number $N$ and two different spin orientations are well separated. These peaks occur at half-integer filling factors $\nu = 2 N + 1/2$ and $\nu = 2 N + 3/2$ so that the distance between them $\delta\nu$ is unity. As $\nu$ increases $\delta\nu$ shrinks. Near certain $N = N_c$ two peaks abruptly merge into a single peak at $\nu = 2N + 1$. We argue that this collapse of the spin-splitting at low magnetic fields is attributed to the disorder-induced destruction of the exchange enhancement of the electron $g$-factor. We use the mean-field approach to show that in the limit of zero Zeeman energy $\delta\nu$ experiences a second-order phase transition as a function of the magnetic field. We give explicit expressions for $N_c$ in terms of a sample's parameters. For example, we predict that for high-mobility heterostructures $N_c = 0.9 d n^{5/6} n_i^{-1/3},$ where $d$ is the spacer width, $n$ is the density of the two-dimensional electron gas, and $n_i$ is the two-dimensional density of randomly situated remote donors.
Fogler Michael M.
Shklovskii Boris I.
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