Properties of the soliton-lattice state in double-layer quantum Hall systems

Authors: 
C. B. Hanna, A. H. MacDonald, S. M. Girvin
Name of the Journal: 
Physica B: Condensed Matter
Proceedings, Conference, Subtitle or Series: 
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems
Date of Pub: 
June 17, 1998
Year of Publication: 
1998
Volume: 
249-251
Pages: 
824-827
Abstract: 

Application of a sufficiently strong parallel magnetic field B∥>Bc produces a soliton-lattice (SL) ground state in a double-layer quantum Hall system. We calculate the ground-state properties of the SL state as a function of B∥ for total filling factor νT=1, and obtain the total energy, anisotropic SL stiffness, Kosterlitz–Thouless melting temperature, and SL magnetization. The SL magnetization might be experimentally measurable, and the magnetic susceptibility diverges as |B∥−Bc|−1.

DOI Link: 
10.1016/S0921-4526(98)00323-8
arXiv.org Number: 
cond-mat/9805259