Preferred number of flipped spins in Skyrmion excitation

N. Kumada; A. Sawada; Z. F. Ezawa; H. Azuhata; S. Nagahama; K. Muraki; T. Saku; Y. Hirayama

doi:10.1016/S0921-4526(01)00294-0

Preferred number of flipped spins in Skyrmion excitation

N. Kumada, A. Sawada, Z. F. Ezawa, H. Azuhata, S. Nagahama, K. Muraki, T. Saku, Y. Hirayama

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Abstract

We measured the activation energy of the Skyrmion excitations in the monolayer quantum Hall (QH) state at the Landau-level filling factor ν = 1 and in the bilayer QH state at ν = 2. The number of flipped spins N_s changes from 7 to 1 in the monolayer sample and in the bilayer sample with small tunneling energy gap, while N_s changes from 14 to 7 and finally to 1 in the bilayer sample with large tunneling energy gap. These experimental data suggest the existence of the preferred number of flipped spins N_s = 7 for a Skyrmion-pair excitation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	169-172
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physica B: Condensed Matter
Volume	298
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(01)00294-0
Publication status	Published - 2001 Apr
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

GaAs/AlGaAs
Quantum Hall effect
Skyrmion

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Preferred number of flipped spins in Skyrmion excitation

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