Composite Fermion Description of the Excitations of the Paired Pfaffian Fractional Quantum Hall State

• Authors: A. Wójs , G. Sreejith , G. Möller , C. Tőke , J. Jain
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We review the recently developed bipartite composite fermion model for the excitations of the so-called Pfaffian state, a promising model for the fractional quantum Hall effect at the Landau level filling factor ν = 5/2. In particular, we demonstrate a necessary ingredient of the non-Abelian braid statistics, namely the degeneracy of spatially indistinguishable configurations of widely separated quasiparticles.

Keywords

EN

73.43.-f; 05.30.Pr; 71.10.Pm

Discipline

• 05.30.Pr: Fractional statistics systems (anyons, etc.)
• 73.43.-f: Quantum Hall effects
• 71.10.Pm: Fermions in reduced dimensions (anyons, composite fermions, Luttinger liquid, etc.)(for anyon mechanism in superconductors, see 74.20.Mn)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 120
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 830-838

Dates

published

2011-11

Contributors

author

A. Wójs

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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G. Sreejith

• Department of Physics, 104 Davey Lab, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

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G. Möller

• TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Av., Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom

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C. Tőke

• Institute of Physics, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary

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J. Jain

• Department of Physics, 104 Davey Lab, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.120.830