Phase Diagram of Quantum Hall Breakdown and Non-linear Phenomena for InGaAs/InP Quantum Wells
arXiv:1805.09725 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.165434
Abstract
We investigate non-linear magneto-transport in a Hall bar device made from a strained InGaAs/InP quantum well: a material system with attractive spintronic properties. From extensive maps of the longitudinal differential resistance (r_xx) as a function of current and magnetic (B-) field phase diagrams are generated for quantum Hall breakdown in the strong quantum Hall regime reaching filling factor =1. By careful illumination the electron sheet density (n) is incremented in small steps and this provides insight into how the transport characteristics evolve with n. We explore in depth the energetics of integer quantum Hall breakdown and provide a simple picture for the principal features in the r_xx maps. A simple tunneling model that captures a number of the characteristic features is introduced. Parameters such as critical Hall electric fields and the exchange-enhanced g-factors for odd-filling factors including nu=1 are extracted. A detailed examination is made of the B-field dependence of the critical current as determined by two different methods and compiled for different values of n. A simple rescaling procedure that allows the critical current data points obtained from r_xx maxima for even-filling to collapse on to a single curve is demonstrated. Exchange-enhanced g-factors for odd-filling are extracted from the compiled data and are compared to those determined by conventional thermal activation measurements. The exchange-enhanced g-factor is found to increase with decreasing n.
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