@article{ddddfbdd6185494b83dc5667c79776ea,
title = "Bloch ferromagnetism of composite fermions",
abstract = "In 1929, Felix Bloch suggested that the paramagnetic Fermi sea of electrons should make a spontaneous transition to a fully magnetized state at very low densities, because the exchange energy gained by aligning the spins exceeds the enhancement in the kinetic energy1. However, experimental realizations of this effect have been hard to implement. Here, we report the observation of an abrupt, interaction-driven transition to full magnetization, highly reminiscent of Bloch ferromagnetism. Our platform utilizes the two-dimensional Fermi sea of composite fermions near half-filling of the lowest Landau level. We measure the Fermi wavevector—which directly provides the spin polarization—and observe a sudden transition from a partially spin-polarized to a fully spin-polarized ground state as we lower the density of the composite fermions. Our theoretical calculations that take Landau level mixing into account provide a semi-quantitative account of this phenomenon.",
author = "Hossain, {Md Shafayat} and Tongzhou Zhao and Songyang Pu and Mueed, {M. A.} and Ma, {M. K.} and {Villegas Rosales}, {K. A.} and Chung, {Y. J.} and Pfeiffer, {L. N.} and West, {K. W.} and Baldwin, {K. W.} and Jain, {J. K.} and M. Shayegan",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge support through the the National Science Foundation (grant DMR 1709076) for measurements and the US Department of Energy Basic Energy Science (grant DEFG02-00-ER45841), the National Science Foundation (grants ECCS 1906253 and MRSEC DMR 1420541) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation{\textquoteright}s EPiQS Initiative (grant GBMF9615) for sample fabrication and characterization. The theoretical work at Penn State (T.Z., S.P. and J.K.J.) was supported in part by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under grant no. DE-SC0005042. J.K.J. thanks the the Indian Institute Science, Bangalore, where part of this work was performed, for their hospitality, and the Infosys Foundation for making the visit possible. M.S. acknowledges a QuantEmX travel grant from the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through grant no. GBMF5305. We also thank R. Warburton and R. Winkler for illuminating discussions. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1038/s41567-020-1000-z",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "17",
pages = "48--52",
journal = "Nature Physics",
issn = "1745-2473",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "1",
}