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Phys. Rev. B 72, 241310(R) (2005) [4 pages]

Interaction correction to the longitudinal conductivity and Hall resistivity in high-quality two-dimensional GaAs electron and hole systems

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C. E. Yasin1, T. L. Sobey1, A. P. Micolich1, W. R. Clarke1, A. R. Hamilton1,*, M. Y. Simmons1, L. N. Pfeiffer2, K. W. West2, E. H. Linfield3, M. Pepper3, and D. A. Ritchie3
1School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
2Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hills, New Jersey 07974, USA
3Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom

Received 15 March 2004; revised 27 October 2005; published 21 December 2005

We study the corrections in the low temperature limit to both the longitudinal conductivity and Hall resistivity due to electron-electron interactions in high-quality GaAs systems. Using the recent theory of Zala et al. Phys. Rev. B 64 214204 (2001)] we find that the interaction corrections to the conductivity and Hall resistivity are consistent with each other in n-GaAs, although the agreement is not as good in p-GaAs. This suggests that interaction effects can explain the metallic drop in resistivity at B=0 in n-GaAs systems, but more work is required to understand p-GaAs systems.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.241310
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.72.241310
PACS:
73.43.−f, 71.27.+a, 71.30.+h, 73.61.−r

*Email: Alex.Hamilton@unsw.edu.au