Tunneling measurements of the coulomb pseudogap in a two-dimensional electron system in a quantizing magnetic field

E. V. Deviatov, A. A. Shashkin, V. T. Dolgopolov, W. Hansen, M. Holland

Published 1999-09-01, updated 1999-12-03Version 2

We study the Coulomb pseudogap for tunneling into the two-dimensional electron system of high-mobility (Al,Ga)As/GaAs heterojunctions subjected to a quantizing magnetic field at filling factor $\nu \leq 1$. Tunnel current-voltage characteristics show that for the double maximum observed in the tunnel resistance at $\nu \approx 1$ the pseudogap is linear in energy with a slope that depends on filling factor, magnetic field, and temperature. We give a qualitative account of the filling factor dependence of the pseudogap slope and we confirm the recently reported appearance of another relaxation time for tunneling at $\nu \approx 1$. For the tunnel resistance peaks at $\nu=1/3$ and 2/3 a completely different behaviour of the current-voltage curves is found and interpreted as manifestation of the fractional gap.