Itinerant Electron Ferromagnetism in the Quantum Hall Regime

Details Itinerant Electron Ferromagnetism in the Quantum Hall Regime Itinerant Electron Ferromagnetism in the Quantum Hall Regime

1998-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9808186v1

Phys.Rev. B62, 2640 (2000).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

29 pages, 20 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.62.2640

We report on a study of the temperature and Zeeman-coupling-strength dependence of the one-particle Green's function of a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas at Landau level filling factor $\nu =1$ where the ground state is a strong ferromagnet. Our work places emphasis on the role played by the itinerancy of the electrons, which carry the spin magnetization and on analogies between this system and conventional itinerant electron ferromagnets. We discuss the application to this system of the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, which is analogous to the band theory description of metallic ferromagnetism and fails badly at finite temperatures because it does not account for spin-wave excitations. We go beyond this level by evaluating the one-particle Green's function using a self-energy, which accounts for quasiparticle spin-wave interactions. We report results for the temperature dependence of the spin magnetization, the nuclear spin relaxation rate, and 2D-2D tunneling conductances. Our calculations predict a sharp peak in the tunneling conductance at large bias voltages with strength proportional to temperature. We compare with experiment, where available, and with predictions based on numerical exact diagonalization and other theoretical approaches.

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