Reply to Simon's Comment on "Evidence for an Anisotropic State of Two-Dimensional Electrons in High Landau Levels"

M. P. Lilly, K. B. Cooper, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West

Published 1999-03-09Version 1

We recently reported [PRL 82, 394 (1999)] large transport anisotropies in a two-dimensional electron gas in high Landau levels. These observations were made utilizing both square and Hall bar sample geometries. Simon recently commented [cond-mat/9903086] that a classical calculation of the current flow in the sample shows a magnification of an underlying anisotropy when using a square sample. In this reply we present more recent data obtained with a very high mobility sample, and reiterate that, with or without magnification, an anisotropic state develops in high Landau levels at very low temperatures.