Magneto-transport in high mobility \textit{n}-InSb/InAlSb quantum wells*

The inherent large spin-orbit (SO) coupling InSb quantum wells (QWs) is expected to result in sensitive tunability of the Rashba effect with electric field. The strength of the SO coupling can be extracted from measurements of weak anti-localisation (WAL) and from the beating of Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations [1]. We have investigated these phenomena and report magneto transport measurements from a range of InSb/InAlSb QWs with varying carrier density $n$ and mobility \textit{$\mu $}. It is shown that the inherent large Zeeman splitting combined with inhomogeneous level broadening means that beating in the SdH oscillations in InSb QWs are rarely observed. However, her we show that in InSb/InAlSb QWs, $n$ can be modulated using a gate electric field from 1.15$

*Research supported by UK EPSRC.

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2009.MAR.L22.5