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Published January 16, 2004 | Accepted Version + Published
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Metastable resistance-anisotropy orientation of two-dimensional electrons in high Landau levels

Abstract

In half-filled high Landau levels, two-dimensional electron systems possess collective phases which exhibit a strongly anisotropic resistivity tensor. A weak, but as yet unknown, rotational symmetry-breaking potential native to the host semiconductor structure is necessary to orient these phases in macroscopic samples. Making use of the known external symmetry-breaking effect of an in-plane magnetic field, we find that the native potential can have two orthogonal local minima. It is possible to initialize the system in the higher minimum and then observe its relaxation toward equilibrium.

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© 2004 The American Physical Society. Received 26 September 2003; published 15 January 2004. We thank E. I. Rashba for a helpful correspondence. This work was supported by the DOE under Grant No. DE-FG03-99ER45766 and by the NSF under Grants No. DMR-0070890 and No. DMR-0242946.

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