Abstract
We have employed tilted-field magnetotransport measurements of the energy gap for the odd-integer quantized Hall states at Landau level filling factors to determine the spin of thermally excited quasielectron-quasihole pairs. At our data show that as many as 7 electron spin flips accompany such excitations, while at apparently only a single spin flips. These results lend support to the recent suggestions that "Skyrmionic" quasiparticles are the lowest-lying charged excitations of the fully polarized quantum Hall fluid but are not at the higher odd-integer fillings.
- Received 29 June 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4290
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