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Self-organised fractional quantisation in a hole quantum wire

Gul, Y; Holmes, SN; Myronov, M; Kumar, S; Pepper, M; (2018) Self-organised fractional quantisation in a hole quantum wire. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter , 30 (9) , Article 09LT01. 10.1088/1361-648X/aaabab. Green open access

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Abstract

We have investigated hole transport in quantum wires formed by electrostatic confinement in strained germanium two-dimensional layers. The ballistic conductance characteristics show the regular staircase of quantum levels with plateaux at n2e2/h, where n is an integer, e is the fundamental unit of charge and h is Planck's constant. However as the carrier concentration is reduced, the quantised levels show a behaviour that is indicative of the formation of a zig-zag structure and new quantised plateaux appear at low temperatures. In units of 2e2/h the new quantised levels correspond to values of n = 1/4 reducing to 1/8 in the presence of a strong parallel magnetic field which lifts the spin degeneracy but does not quantise the wavefunction. A further plateau is observed corresponding to n = 1/32 which does not change in the presence of a parallel magnetic field. These values indicate that the system is behaving as if charge was fractionalised with values e/2 and e/4, possible mechanisms are discussed.

Type: Article
Title: Self-organised fractional quantisation in a hole quantum wire
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aaabab
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/aaabab
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Quantum wire, ballistic quantum transport, strained germanium
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042524
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