Optical absorption in the soliton-lattice state of a double-quantum-well system

Abstract

When the separation between layers in a double-quantum-well system is sufficiently small, the ground state of the two-dimensional electron gas at filling factor 1 has an interwell phase coherence even in the absence of tunneling. For non-zero tunneling, this coherent state goes through a commensurate-incommensurate transition as the sample is tilted with respect to the quantizing magnetic field at filling factor 1. In this article, we compute the optical (infrared) absorption spectrum of the coherent state from the commensurate state at small tilt angle to the soliton-lattice state at larger tilt angle and comment on the possibility of observing experimentally the distinctive signature of the soliton lattice.