Magnetic Anisotropy in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
arXiv:cond-mat/9805240 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2328
Abstract
We show that the sign of magnetic anisotropy energy in quantum Hall ferromagnets is determined by a competition between electrostatic and exchange energies. Easy-axis ferromagnets tend to occur when Landau levels whose states have similar spatial profiles cross. We report measurements of integer QHE evolution with magnetic-field tilt. Reentrant behavior observed for the $ν= 4$ QHE at high tilt angles is attributed to easy-axis anisotropy. This interpretation is supported by a detailed calculation of the magnetic anisotropy energy.
12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett