Hall field-induced resistance oscillations in tilted magnetic fields

A. T. Hatke, M. A. Zudov, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West

Published 2011-01-14, updated 2011-01-26Version 2

We have studied the effect of an in-plane magnetic field on Hall field-induced resistance oscillations in high mobility two-dimensional electron systems. We have found that the oscillation frequency depends only on the perpendicular component of the magnetic field but the oscillation amplitude decays exponentially with an in-plane component. While these findings cannot be accounted for by existing theories of nonlinear transport, our analysis suggests that the decay can be explained by an in-plane magnetic field-induced modification of the quantum scattering rate.