Spin Susceptibility of a 2D Electron System in GaAs towards the Weak Interaction Region

Y. -W. Tan, J. Zhu, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, K. W. West

Published 2005-11-28Version 1

We determine the spin susceptibility $\chi$ in the weak interaction regime of a tunable, high quality, two-dimensional electron system in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. The band structure effects, modifying mass and g-factor, are carefully taken into accounts since they become appreciable for the large electron densities of the weak interaction regime. When properly normalized, $\chi$ decreases monotonically from 3 to 1.1 with increasing density over our experimental range from 0.1 to $4\times10^{11} cm^{-2}$. In the high density limit, $\chi$ tends correctly towards $\chi\to 1$ and compare well with recent theory.