Cyclotron spin-flip excitations in the 2D-electron system

The cyclotron spin-flip excitations of a two-dimensional electron system have been investigated by inelastic light scattering (ILS). At small electron filling factors, nu similar to 0.1, cyclotron spin-singlet and spin-triplet excitations have been observed, which are the magnetoplasmon and the three possible spin-flip modes that differ by their spin orientations along the axis of the quantizing magnetic field. At larger electron filling factors. nu > 0.2, the electron system is fully spin-polarized. The cyclotron spin-wave (CSW) mode reenters in the ILS spectra at an electron filling factor nu > 1. The CSW energy is insensitive to both the experimentally accessible in-plane momenta and the electron concentration, whereas its ILS efficiency is strongly influenced by the spin polarization of the electron system. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.