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Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 046807 (2003) [4 pages]

Evidence for a New Dissipationless Effect in 2D Electronic Transport

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M. A. Zudov and R. R. Du
Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974

Received 6 September 2002; published 30 January 2003

In an ultraclean 2D electron system (2DES) subjected to crossed millimeterwave (30–150 GHz) and weak (B<2   kG) magnetic fields, a series of apparently dissipationless states emerges as the system is detuned from cyclotron resonances. Such states are characterized by an exponentially vanishing low-temperature diagonal resistance and a classical Hall resistance. The activation energies associated with such states exceed the Landau level spacing by an order of magnitude. Our findings are likely indicative of a collective ground state previously unknown for 2DES.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.046807
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.046807
PACS:
73.40.–c, 73.21.–b, 73.43.–f