Pinning mode resonance of a Skyrme crystal near Landau level filling factor $ν$=1

Abstract

Microwave pinning-mode resonances found around integer quantum Hall effects, are a signature of crystallized quasiparticles or holes. Application of in-plane magnetic field to these crystals, increasing the Zeeman energy, has negligible effect on the resonances just below Landau level filling $ν=2$, but increases the pinning frequencies near $ν=1$, particularly for smaller quasiparticle/hole densities. The charge dynamics near $ν=1$, characteristic of a crystal order, are affected by spin, in a manner consistent with a Skyrme crystal.