Abstract
We study the coupling of Landau levels and electric subbands in quasi-two-dimensional electron inversion layers of modulation-doped GaAs/As heterojunctions in tilted magnetic fields. We employ far-infrared Fourier-transform spectroscopy with light polarized parallel to the layers. When the subband separation is much larger than the cyclotron energy ħ, we find an enhancement of the cyclotron mass due to the parallel magnetic-field component. When the subband separation =rħ is a multiple r=1,2 of the cyclotron energy, we observe a resonant splitting of the cyclotron resonance. The mass enhancement as well as the magnitudes and energetic positions of the splittings are described by perturbation theory and by the triangular-well approximation of the space-charge potential. From the experimental data we determine intersubband energies and dipole matrix elements. Both depend on electron density, which we adjust by illumination with a light-emitting diode or by a gate voltage applied between the inversion layer and a front gate.
- Received 20 September 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.39.3785
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