Microscopic manifestation of the spin phase transition at filling factor 2/3

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 392-396

  Verdene, Basile ^a   Martin, Jens ^a   Gamez, Gerardo ^b   Smet, Jurgen ^b   Von Klitzing, Klaus ^b   Mahalu, Diana ^a   Schuh, Dieter ^c   Abstreiter, Gerhard ^c   Yacoby, Amir ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTORS;

FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOUR; LOCAL COMPRESSIBILITY; LOCALIZED STATE; MACROSCOPIC DIMENSIONS; ORDER PARAMETER; QUANTUM HALL REGIME; SPIN TRANSITION;

HYSTERESIS;

EID: 34249866555     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys588     Document Type: Article

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