PIRSA:15070076

Novel Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Lowest Landau Level

Mandal, S. (2015). Novel Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Lowest Landau Level. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15070076

Mandal, Sudhansu. Novel Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Lowest Landau Level. Perimeter Institute, Jul. 06, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15070076 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:15070076,
            doi = {10.48660/15070076},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15070076},
            author = {Mandal, Sudhansu},
            keywords = {Condensed Matter},
            language = {en},
            title = {Novel Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Lowest Landau Level},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {jul},
            note = {PIRSA:15070076 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Sudhansu Mandal Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

DOI 10.48660/15070076
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Abstract

Fractional quantum Hall effect in the sequence of filling factors n/(2np +- 1) is well understood by the integer quantum Hall effect of the composite fermions at the filling factor n. A composite fermion (CF) is a bound state of an electron and 2p number of quantized vortices. However, the experimentally observed states such as 4/11, 5/13, and 3/8 which are between 1/3 and 2/5 cannot be accommodated in the conventional noninteracting theory of composite fermions. The interaction between CFs in partially filled second effective Landau levels of CFs is important for these states. However, conventional fractional quantum Hall effect of these interacting composite fermions do not reproduce these incompressible states. By diagonalizing Coulomb Hamiltonian in a restricted Hilbert space of the CFs, we find that these states are incompressible for flux-particle relationships that are different from the conventional considerations. We interpret that 4/11 and 5/13 states occur due to fractional quamtum Hall effect of the composite fermions for Haldane Pseudopotential V_3 rather than V_1. And the panti-Pfaffian pair correlation between CFs in the half-filled second effective Landau level creates incompressible 3/8 state. The unconventional topologies of these states are reflected in anomalously low magneto-roton energies for these states.