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Spin Instabilities in Semiconductor Superlattices
Physical Review B
  • D C Marinescu, Clemson University
  • J J Quinn, University of Tennessee
  • Gabriele F Giuliani, Purdue University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-15-2000
Publisher
The American Physical Society
Abstract

The subband levels of quantum wells grown in a periodic array form minibands whose bandwidth ⌬ depends on the probability of interlayer tunneling. In the presence of a strong magnetic field, this system of minibands can exhibit various Coulomb-interaction-driven spin polarization instabilities at an integral value of the filling factor ␯. We investigate in particular the Hartree-Fock phase diagram in the case in which the nϭ0 spin-up and nϭ1 spin-down Landau levels are separated by an energy smaller than ⌬. A spin-density-wave ground state is shown to occur at filling factor ␯ϭ2.

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