Simultaneous Excitation of Spins and Pseudospins in the Bilayer $\nu =1$ Quantum Hall State

Abstract

The tilting angular dependence of the energy gap was measured in the bilayer quantum Hall state at the Landau level filling $\nu =1$ by changing the density imbalance between the two layers. The observed gap behavior shows a continuous transformation from the bilayer balanced density state to the monolayer state. Even a sample with 33 K tunneling gap shows the same activation energy anomaly reported by Murphy {\it et al.}. We discuss a possible relation between our experimental results and the quantum Hall ferromagnet of spins and pseudospins.

4 pages, 4 figures