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Published August 2004 | Published + Submitted
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Onset of interlayer phase coherence in a bilayer two-dimensional electron system: Effect of layer density imbalance

Abstract

Tunneling and Coulomb drag are sensitive probes of spontaneous interlayer phase coherence in bilayer two-dimensional electron systems at total Landau level filling factor nu(T)=1. We find that the phase boundary between the interlayer phase coherent state and the weakly coupled compressible phase moves to larger layer separations as the electron density distribution in the bilayer is imbalanced. The critical layer separation increases quadratically with layer density difference.

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© 2004 The American Physical Society. Received 2 June 2004; published 17 August 2004. We thank Allan MacDonald, Yogesh Joglekar, and Kun Yang for enlightening conversations. This work was supported by the NSF under Grant No. DMR-0242946 and the DOE under Grant No. DE-FG03-99ER45766.

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