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Disorder and interactions in quantum Hall ferromagnets near $\nu=1$

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We report on a finite-size Hartree-Fock study of the competition between disorder and interactions in a two-dimensional electron gas near Landau level filling factor ν=1\nu=1. The ground state at ν=1\nu=1 evolves with increasing disorder from a fully spin-polarized ferromagnet with a charge gap, to a partially spin-polarized ferromagnetic Anderson insulator, to a quasi-metallic paramagnet at the critical point between i=0i=0 and i=2i=2 quantum Hall plateaus. Away from ν=1\nu=1, the ground state evolves from a ferromagnetic Skyrmion quasiparticle glass, to a conventional quasiparticle glass, and finally to a conventional Anderson insulator. We comment on signatures of these different regimes in low-temperature transport and NMR lineshape and peak position data.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0004319,
  title  = {Disorder and interactions in quantum Hall ferromagnets near $\nu=1$},
  author = {Jairo Sinova and A. H. MacDonald and S. M. Girvin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0004319},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PRB