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Tuning of Fermi Contour Anisotropy in GaAs (001) 2D Holes via Strain

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arxiv 1705.09430 v1 pith:MW2D7JEK submitted 2017-05-26 cond-mat.mes-hall

Tuning of Fermi Contour Anisotropy in GaAs (001) 2D Holes via Strain

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We demonstrate tuning of the Fermi contour anisotropy of two-dimensional (2D) holes in a symmetric GaAs (001) quantum well via the application of in-plane strain. The ballistic transport of high-mobility hole carriers allows us to measure the Fermi wavevector of 2D holes via commensurability oscillations as a function of strain. Our results show that a small amount of in-plane strain, on the order of $10^{-4}$, can induce significant Fermi wavevector anisotropy as large as 3.3, equivalent to a mass anisotropy of 11 in a parabolic band. Our method to tune the anisotropy \textit{in situ} provides a platform to study the role of anisotropy on phenomena such as the fractional quantum Hall effect and composite fermions in interacting 2D systems.

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