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Possible Spin Polarization in a One-Dimensional Electron Gas

arXiv:cond-mat/9606004 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.135

Abstract

In zero magnetic field, conductance measurements of clean one-dimensional (1D) constrictions defined in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures show twenty-six quantized ballistic plateaux, as well as a structure close to . In an in-plane magnetic field all the 1D subbands show Zeeman splitting and in the wide channel limit the -factor is , close to that of bulk GaAs. For the last subband spin-splitting originates from the structure at , indicating spin polarization at . The measured enhancement of the -factor as the subbands are depopulated suggests that the ``0.7 structure'' is induced by electron-electron interactions.

Ten pages with four ps figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. (17. June 1996)

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