Evidence for Skyrmion Crystallization from NMR Relaxation Experiments
- 18 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 94 (19), 196803
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.94.196803
Abstract
A resistively detected NMR technique was used to probe the two-dimensional electron gas in a quantum well. The spin-lattice relaxation rate was extracted at near complete filling of the first Landau level by electrons. The nuclear spin of is found to relax much more efficiently with and when a well developed quantum Hall state with occurs. The data show a remarkable correlation between the nuclear spin relaxation and localization. This suggests that the magnetic ground state near complete filling of the first Landau level may contain a lattice of topological spin texture, i.e., a Skyrmion crystal.
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