Enhanced effective masses, spin-orbit polarization, and dispersion relations in 2D hole gases under strongly asymmetric confinement
By using low-field magnetotransport in high-mobility, undoped GaAs/AlGaAs single heterojunctions, the researchers reconstructed the non-parabolic dispersion relations and spin-orbit splitting of heavy-hole subbands, discovering that many-body effects likely double the effective masses compared to single-particle Luttinger-model predictions.
N. A. Cockton, F. Sfigakis, M. Korkusinski, S. R. Harrigan, G. Nichols, Z. D. Merino, T. Zou, A. C. Coschizza, T. Joshi, A. Shetty, M. C. Tam, Z. R. Wasilewski, S. A. Studenikin, D. G. Austing, J. Bau (…)2026-02-12🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall