Transverse pseudospin susceptibility and tunneling parameters of double-layer electron-gas systems

Abstract

The subbands of weakly coupled double-layer two dimensional electron gas systems consist of narrowly spaced pairs whose corresponding wavefunctions are symmetric and antisymmetric combinations of isolated layer subband wavefunctions. The energetic spacing within a pair is 2t where t is the interlayer tunneling amplitude. t is an important parameter in modeling these systems and, if interactions could be neglected, it would be proportional to beating frequencies seen in weak-field magnetic oscillations experiments and therefore readily measurable. We point out that interactions alter the beating frequency. We discuss similarities and differences between this effect and exchange-correlation enhanced spin-splitting.