Pseudospin canting transition and stripes in bilayer quantum Hall ferromagnets: a self-charging capacitor.
We predict that in nu(T) = 1 bilayer quantum Hall (QH) pseudoferromagnets, an in-plane magnetic field can induce a reentrant pseudospin "canting" transition between interlayer charge balanced (planar) to imbalanced (canted) QH states. At T = 0 ( T>0) this quantum (classical) transition is in a new, anisotropic, compressible (2+1)D (2D) Ising universality class. The striking experimental signatures are the universal nonlinear charge-voltage and in-plane field relations, and the divergence of the differential bilayer capacitance at the transition, resulting in a bilayer capacitor that spontaneously charges itself, even in the absence of an applied interlayer voltage.
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Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.