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Quantum liquid versus electron solid around =1/5 Landau-level filling

  • H. W. Jiang
  • , R. L. Willett
  • , H. L. Stormer
  • , D. C. Tsui
  • , L. N. Pfeiffer
  • , K. W. West

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Abstract

In the high-magnetic-field low-disorder limit the ground state at =1/5 Landau-level filling is an incompressible quantum liquid. This is determined by observing vanishing resistivity xx as the temperature T0. At filling factors below =1/5 as well as in a narrow region above =1/5, xx diverges exponentially as T0. This contrasts the T dependence at any higher. We conclude that the quantum liquid at =1/5 is surrounded by a different phase. In as much as the exponential divergencies are indicative of an electron solid this phase is reentrant in a narrow region above =1/5.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)633-636
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume65
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1990

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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