In-plane magnetic field-induced anisotropy and orientation energy of stripe phases at half-filled high Landau levels

Abstract

We report on detailed Hartree–Fock calculations of the unidirectional charge density wave orientation energy induced by a tilted magnetic field. We find that for current experimental samples stripes are oriented perpendicular to the in-plane field, consistent with experiment. For wider two-dimensional electron systems we predict tilt-induced stripe states with variable anisotropy energy sign.