INHOMOGENEITY OF ELECTRON LIQUID AND EFFECTS OF INTERLAYER COUPLING IN GaAs/AlGaAs SUPERLATTICES IN THE REGIME OF THE QUANTUM HALL EFFECT

摘要

Formation of the electron state with the integer filling factor was studied by magneto-capacitance and magneto-photoluminescence measurements in weakly coupled GaAs/AlGaAs multilayers where quasi-two dimensional electrons revealed the integer Quantum Hall Effect. The disorder modulated compressibility of the quantized Hall phase with the filling factor ν=2 was determined. The incompressible fraction of this phase was shown to rapidly disappear with the increasing temperature. The quantized Hall phase of the weakly coupled multilayers was shown to emit the asymmetrical photoluminescence lines. We demonstrated that the observed asymmetry is caused by a partial population of the extended electron states formed in the quantized Hall conductor phase due to the disorder induced interlayer tunneling.