Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1999-01-19
Physics
Condensed Matter
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Scientific paper
For more than a decade it was widely accepted that two-dimensional electrons are insulating at zero temperature and at zero magnetic-field. Experimentally it was demonstrated that, when placed in a strong perpendicular magnetic field, the insulating phase turns into a quantum-Hall state. While this transition was in accordance with existing theoretical models (KLZ), the density driven metal-insulator transition at zero magnetic-field, recently observed in high-quality two-dimensional systems, was unforeseen and, despite considerable amount of effort, its origins are still unknown. In order to improve our understanding of the zero magnetic-field transition, we conducted a study of the insulator to quantum-Hall transition in low-density, two-dimensional, hole system in GaAs that exhibits the zero magnetic-field metal-insulator transition. We found that, in the low field insulating phase, upon increasing the carrier density towards the metal-insulator transition, the critical magnetic-field of the insulator to quantum-Hall transition decreases and converges to the zero magnetic-field metal-insulator transition. This implies a common origin for both the finite magnetic-field and the zero magnetic-field transitions.
Hanein Y.
Li Camille
Shahar D.
Shtrikman Hadas
Tsui Daniel C.
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