Excitations from a filled Landau level in the two-dimensional electron gas
- 15 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 30 (10) , 5655-5668
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.30.5655
Abstract
We consider an interacting two-dimensional electron system, with a uniform positive background, in a strong perpendicular magnetic field at zero temperature, under conditions where an integral number of Landau levels are filled and the Coulomb energy is smaller than the cyclotron energy . The elementary neutral excitations may be described alternatively as magnetoplasma modes, or as magnetic excitons—i.e., a bound state of a hole in a filled Landau level and one electron in an otherwise empty level—and they are characterized by a conserved wave vector . The dispersion relations may be calculated exactly, to first order in , for the lowest magnetoplasmon band, which comes in to the cyclotron frequency at . We also calculate the spin-wave dispersion relations for the case where one spin state of a Landau level is completely occupied, and we discuss qualitatively the exciton spectrum for a partially filled Landau level, under the conditions of the fractional quantized Hall effect.
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