Investigating Energy Scales of Fractional Quantum Hall States using Scanning Gate Microscopy

Autor: Braem, Beat A., Krähenmann, Tobias, Hennel, Szymon, Reichl, Christian, Wegscheider, Werner, Ensslin, Klaus, Ihn, Thomas
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. B 93, 115442 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.115442
Popis: We use the voltage biased tip of a scanning force microscope at a temperature of 35\,mK to locally induce the fractional quantum Hall state of $\nu=1/3$ in a split-gate defined constriction. Different tip positions allow us to vary the potential landscape. From temperature dependence of the conductance plateau at $G=1/3 \times e^2/h$ we determine the activation energy of this local $\nu=1/3$ state. We find that at a magnetic field of 6\,T the activation energy is between 153\,$\mu$eV and 194\,$\mu$eV independent of the shape of the confining potential, but about 50\% lower than for bulk samples.
Databáze: arXiv