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Quantum hall effect in a system of gapless Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells
D. A. Kozlovab, Z. D. Kvonab, N. N. Mikhailovb, S. A. Dvoretskiib a Novosibirsk State University
b Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
Abstract:
The specific features of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in a system of gapless Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells have been studied. It has been established that the behavior of the QHE is asymmetric with respect to the Dirac point: at the lowest temperature ($0.2$ K), quantization of hole fermions occurs in weak magnetic fields down to $0.15$ T, whereas quantization of the electron part of the Dirac cone occurs only in fields of about $0.5$ T. Such an asymmetry is caused by the effect of sideband maxima in the valence band forming the heavy-hole valleys, which play the role of a reservoir and screen out the fluctuation potential. The analysis of the behavior of the dissipative component of the conductivity near the Dirac point has led to a conclusion on the existence of the zeroth Landau level at this point.
Received: 22.10.2014
Citation:
D. A. Kozlov, Z. D. Kvon, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretskii, “Quantum hall effect in a system of gapless Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 100:11 (2014), 824–830; JETP Letters, 100:11 (2014), 724–730
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