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The magnetic-field-induced variation in the width of an anomalous resistance peak in the region of a zero-bias anomaly in n-GaAS/Me tunnel junctions was studied in the range of magnetic field strengths of up to 23 T at the temperatures T=4.2 and 1.5 K. The experimental curves depend neither on the method of a semiconductor substrate surface preparation (doped single crystal cut or epitaxially grown doped semiconductor film) nor on the type of dopant (Te, Si) and metal (Me=Au, Al). A comparison to a theoretical dependence of the exchange potential on the magnetic field strength for electrons on the lowest Landau level confirms that the anomalous resistance peak width can serve as a measure of the exchange-correlation potential jump on the surface of the degenerate electron gas. The results provide an explanation for the dependence of the zero-bias anomaly on the magnetic field and offer a possibility for directly measuring the electron exchange-correlation interaction in a Schottky barrier by means of tunneling spectroscopy.
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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 73, No. 10, 2001, pp. 643–648.
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Shul’man, A.Y., Kotel’nikov, I.N., Varvanin, N.A. et al. Tunneling spectroscopy of the electron exchange-correlation interaction in a Schottky barrier in a quantizing magnetic field: n-GaAs/Me junctions. Jetp Lett. 73, 573–578 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1387531
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