How many tunable parameters to attain a spin degeneracy between Landau levels?

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Abstract

The spin degeneracy of Landau levels is generically lifted by the Zeeman interaction, and also by the spin-orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric solids. In the absence of any crystalline point-group symmetry, such a spin degeneracy can only be found by tuning three real parameters; we have exhaustively identified all symmetry classes of solids for which this number is reduced from three. In particular, only one parameter is needed in the presence of rotational symmetry; this parameter may be the magnitude or orientation of the field, or the bias voltage in tunneling spectroscopy. Signatures of single-parameter tunability include: (i) a smooth crossover between period-doubled and -undoubled quantum oscillations in the low-temperature Schubnikov-de Haas effect, and (ii) "magic angle" magnetoresistance oscillations. Case study is discussed for the Rashba-Dresselhaus two-dimensional electron gas subject to an arbitrarily oriented magnetic field.

Presenters

  • Chong Wang

    Tsinghua University

Authors

  • Chong Wang

    Tsinghua University

  • Duan Wenhui

    Institute for advanced study, Tsinghua University, Physics, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University

  • Leonid Glazman

    Physics, Yale University, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University, Yale University, Yale Univ

  • Aris Alexandradinata

    Yale University