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SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 119, Issue 2, Pages 89-94Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-1098(01)00212-5
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Quantum Hall effect; electronic transport; crystal structure and symmetry
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The principal axes of the recently discovered anisotropic phases of 2D electron systems at high Landau level occupancy are consistently oriented relative to the crystal axes of the host semiconductor. The nature of the native rotational symmetry breaking held responsible for this preferential orientation remains unknown. Here we report on experiments designed to investigate the origin and magnitude of this symmetry breaking field. Our results suggest that neither micron-scale surface roughness features nor the precise symmetry of the quantum well potential confining the 2D system are important factors. By combining tilted field transport measurements with detailed self-consistent calculations we estimate that the native anisotropy energy, whatever its origin, is typically similar to1 mK per electron. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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