Optical probing of the spin polarization of the ν=5/2 quantum Hall state

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Aug 27;105(9):096801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.096801. Epub 2010 Aug 23.

Abstract

We apply polarization resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy to measure the spin polarization of a two dimensional electron gas in perpendicular magnetic field. We find that the splitting between the σ+ and σ- polarizations exhibits a sharp drop at ν=5/2 and is equal to the bare Zeeman energy, which resembles the behavior at even filling factors. We show that this behavior is consistent with filling factor ν=5/2 being unpolarized.