Theory of interlayer tunneling in bilayer quantum Hall ferromagnets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1829-1832

  Stern, Ady ^a   Girvin, S M ^b   MacDonald, A H ^b   Ma, Ning ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MULTILAYERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BILAYER QUANTUM HALL FERROMAGNETS; DISORDER INDUCED TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS; GOLDSTONE MODE; INTERLAYER TUNNELING; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; PSEUDOSPIN ORDER PARAMETER;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 0006255976     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1829     Document Type: Article

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