Evidence of spontaneous spin polarization in the two-dimensional electron gas

Details Evidence of spontaneous spin polarization in the two-dimensional electron gas Evidence of spontaneous spin polarization in the two-dimensional electron gas

2004-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404145v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

one tex file and four figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.195331

Density-functional calculations using an exact exchange potential for a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed in a GaAs single quantum well predict the existence of a spin-polarized phase, when an excited subband becomes slightly populated. Direct experimental evidence is obtained from low temperature and low excitation-power photoluminescence (PL) spectra which display the sudden appearance of a sharp emission peak below the energy of the optical transition from the first excited electron subband upon its occupation. The behavior of this PL feature in magnetic fields applied in-plane as well as perpendicular to the 2DEG indicate the formation of spin-polarized domains in the excited subband with in-plane magnetization. For it speaks also the strong enhancement of exchange-vertex corrections observed in inelastic light scattering spectra by spin-density excitations of a slightly occupied first-excited subband.

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