Ar. Goni et al., ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS IN 2D ELECTRON GASES - INELASTIC LIGHT-SCATTERING-STUDIES AT HIGH-PRESSURE, Journal of physics and chemistry of solids, 56(3-4), 1995, pp. 367-373
We report recent inelastic light scattering measurements of elementary
excitations of 2D electron gases produced in modulation-doped single
and double quantum well structures. The 2D electron density n obtained
from photoluminescence data is continuously tuned by applying hydrost
atic pressure. Inelastic light scattering yields detailed information
on collective intersubband charge-density (CDE) and spin-density excit
ations (SDE) from which the Hartree and exchange terms of the Coulomb
interaction are obtained as a function of carrier density. In the very
dilute regime (n < 5 x 10(10) cm(-2)) we find that exchange-correlati
on effects become more important than the Hartree term of the electron
-electron interaction. Further reduction of the electron density with
pressure drives the 2D electron gas through a metal-nonmetal transitio
n characterized by the collapse of the Hartree term. This transition,
however, is suppressed in a double quantum well system due to the enha
ncement of screening effects in the interacting bilayer electron gas.