We investigate the Read-Rezayi parafermion state of correlated electrons at the fractional Landau level filling ν=3/5. It is a Jack polynomial generated by contact four-body repulsion. We show by exact diagonalization that it is also emerges from a suitable short-range two-body interaction. We find that it closely matches Coulomb ground state in the second Landau level of non-relativistic fermions, and thus possibly describes the ν=13/5 (and, by conjugation, ν=12/5) fractional quantum Hall effect in GaAs.
Fractional quantum Hall effect is a remarkable behaviour of correlated electrons, observed exclusively in two dimensions, at low temperatures, and in strong magnetic fields. The most prominent fractional quantum Hall state occurs at Landau level filling factor ν = 1/3 and it is described by the famous Laughlin wave function, which (apart from the trivial Gaussian factor) is an example of Jack polynomial. Fermionic Jack polynomials also describe another pair of candidate fractional quantum Hall states: Moore-Read and Read-Rezayi states, believed to form at the ν = 1/2 and 3/5 fillings of the second Landau level, respectively. Bosonic Jacks on the other hand are candidates for certain correlated states of cold atoms. We examine here a continuous family of fermionic Jack polynomials whose special case is the Laughlin state as approximate wave functions for the 1/3 fractional quantum Hall effect.
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