Anomalous spin exciton with a magnetoroton minimum in a quantum Hall ferromagnet at a filling factor ν=2

Abstract

In ZnO-based two-dimensional electron systems with strong Coulomb interaction, the anomalous spin-exciton branch is revealed. As probed by inelastic light scattering, in a ferromagnetic quantum-Hall state with the filling factor $\ensuremath{\nu}=2$, a spin exciton has a negative momentum dispersion with steepness dependent on the electron density. The negative dispersion of the spin exciton is associated with its interaction with higher-energy spin-flip modes that exist near $\ensuremath{\nu}=2$. Surprisingly, the anti-Stokes light scattering on spin excitons at ferromagnetic state $\ensuremath{\nu}=2$ is amplified by orders of magnitude, indicating the macroscopic accumulation of these excitations. The experimental findings are confirmed by the exact diagonalization method---these calculations show a magnetoroton minimum in the dispersion of spin excitons and also the attractive interaction between magnetoroton spin excitations.