Giant spin-orbit splitting in a HgTe quantum well

Y. S. Gui, C. R. Becker, N. Dai +8

We have investigated beating patterns in Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations for HgTe/Hg_{0.3}Cd_{0.7}Te(001) quantum wells with electron densities of 2 to 3 X 10^{12} cm^{-2}. Up to 12…