Hall field-induced resistance oscillations in tilted magnetic fields

TL;DR

This study investigates how in-plane magnetic fields affect Hall field-induced resistance oscillations in high mobility 2D electron systems, revealing that the oscillation frequency depends on the perpendicular field while amplitude decays with in-plane component.

Contribution

It demonstrates that in-plane magnetic fields modify the quantum scattering rate, affecting resistance oscillations, which existing theories do not fully explain.

Findings

Oscillation frequency depends only on the perpendicular magnetic field component.

Oscillation amplitude decays exponentially with in-plane magnetic field.

Decay can be explained by in-plane magnetic field-induced change in quantum scattering rate.

Abstract

We have studied the effect of an in-plane magnetic field on Hall field-induced resistance oscillations in high mobility two-dimensional electron systems. We have found that the oscillation frequency depends only on the perpendicular component of the magnetic field but the oscillation amplitude decays exponentially with an in-plane component. While these findings cannot be accounted for by existing theories of nonlinear transport, our analysis suggests that the decay can be explained by an in-plane magnetic field-induced modification of the quantum scattering rate.