Abstract
The fabrication by molecular-beam epitaxy of modulation-doped magnetic semiconductor heterostructures results in the creation of novel “magnetic” two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) with unusual transport properties. We report on the measurements of cyclotron resonance (CR) and effective mass in magnetic 2DEGs formed in modulation-doped ZnSe/Zn1−x−yCdxMnySe single quantum wells. Far-infrared absorption measurements are carried out at a nominal temperature of 4.2 K and in fields up to 30 T on these magnetic samples, as well as on corresponding nonmagnetic samples (ZnSe/Zn1−xCdxSe single quantum wells). The samples have carrier densities ranging from 1 to 4×1011 cm−2 and mobilities as high as 42 000 cm2/V s for the nonmagnetic samples. For the magnetic samples, the magnetic field dependence of the CR frequency shows marked oscillatory deviations from linearity in the vicinity of integer filling factors ν=2 and ν=1. For instance, compared to the nonmagnetic samples, the amplitude of the oscillations in the effective mass of the magnetic samples changes by 15% at half-filling factor. This is significantly larger than similar oscillatory effective mass behavior observed in standard semiconductor 2DEGS (e.g., GaAs/GaAlAs), suggesting a qualitatively different physical origin for this phenomenon in these magnetic systems.
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