Manifestation of the Exchange Enhancement of the Valley Splitting in the Quantum Hall Effect Regime

TL;DR

This paper reports a new dip effect in the Hall resistance of a Si MOSFET in the quantum Hall regime, caused by oscillating exchange enhancement of valley splitting near , revealing complex valley-related phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces the observation of a dip effect linked to exchange-enhanced valley splitting oscillations in the quantum Hall regime.

Findings

Observation of a sharp dip in Hall resistance near 

Direct evidence of exchange enhancement oscillations of valley splitting

Behavior consistent with asymmetric extended states in Landau bands

Abstract

We report a new "dip" effect in the Hall resistance, R_{xy}, of a Si metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor in the quantum Hall effect regime. With increasing magnetic field, the Hall resistance moves from the plateau at Landau filling factor \nu=6 directly to the plateau at \nu=4, skipping the plateau at \nu=5. However, when the filling factor approaches \nu=5, the Hall resistance sharply "dives" to the value 1/5(h/e^2) characteristic of the \nu=5 plateau, and then returns to 1/4(h/e^2). This is interpreted as a manifestation of the oscillating exchange enhancement of the valley splitting when the Fermi level is in the middle between two adjacent valley-split Landau bands with the asymmetric position of the extended states.