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Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5808–5811 (2000)

Resonantly Enhanced Tunneling in a Double Layer Quantum Hall Ferromagnet

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I. B. Spielman1, J. P. Eisenstein1, L. N. Pfeiffer2, and K. W. West2
1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
2Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974

Received 16 February 2000; published in the issue dated 19 June 2000

The tunneling conductance between two parallel 2D electron systems has been measured in a regime of strong interlayer Coulomb correlations. At total Landau level filling νT = 1 the tunnel spectrum changes qualitatively when the boundary separating the compressible phase from the ferromagnetic quantized Hall state is crossed. A huge resonant enhancement replaces the strongly suppressed equilibrium tunneling characteristic of weakly coupled layers. The possible relationship of this enhancement to the Goldstone mode of the broken symmetry ground state is discussed.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5808
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5808
PACS:
71.10.Pm, 73.40.Hm, 73.40.Gk