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Crossed magnetic fields technique for studying spin and orbital properties of 2d electrons in the dilute regime

✍ Scribed by M.E. Gershenson; V.M. Pudalov; H. Kojima; N. Butch; E.M. Dizhur; G. Brunthaler; A. Prinz; G. Bauer


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
294 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1386-9477

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✦ Synopsis


We developed a crossed magnetic ÿeld technique, which allowed us to probe separately the spin and orbital properties of two-dimensional (2D) electrons. Using this technique, we measured directly the spin susceptibility, the e ective electron mass and g-factor in diluted 2D systems near the metal-insulator transition. All these quantities increase gradually with decreasing electron density: e.g., the susceptibility increases by a factor of 4 at n 1 × 10 11 cm -2 . We have also studied the e ect of the in-plane magnetic ÿeld B || on dephasing. At high electron densities (n ¿ 2:5 × 10 11 cm -2 ), the dephasing time ' decreases with B || much stronger than the momentum relaxation time . At small n, on the contrary, the increase of the dephasing rate with B || is less than that for . In the latter case, the dependence '(B||) can be attributed to enhancement of dephasing by the B || -induced disorder.