Abstract
We report on nonlinear transport measurements in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Upon application of direct current, the low-temperature differential resistivity acquires a positive correction, which exhibits a pronounced maximum followed by a plateau. With increasing temperature, the nonlinearity diminishes and disappears. These observations can be understood in terms of a crossover from the Bloch-Grüneisen regime to the quasielastic scattering regime as the electrons are heated by direct current. Calculations considering the interaction of electrons with acoustic phonons provide a reasonable description of our experimental findings.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 081407 |
| Journal | Physical Review B |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 22 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank L. Engel and I. Dmitriev for discussions, and S. Chakraborty for technical assistance. The work at the University of Minnesota was funded by the NSF Grant No. DMR-1309578. The work at the NHMFL/FSU was supported by DOE Grant No. DE-FG0205-ER46212. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is supported by National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement No. DMR-1157490 and the State of Florida. This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract No. DE-NA-0003525.
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