Abstract
Hysteretic effects are reported in magneto-transport experiments on lateral quantum devices. The effects are characterized by two vastly different relaxation times (minutes and days). It is shown that the observed phenomena are related to long-lived eddy currents. This is confirmed by torsion-balance magnetometry measurements of the same two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) material. These observations show that the induced quantum Hall potential at the edges of the 2DEG reservoirs influences transport through the devices, and have important consequences for the transport properties of all lateral devices, subjected to quantizing magnetic fields.
- Received 10 November 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.075309
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