Disorder and interactions in quantum Hall ferromagnets near $\nu=1$
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 . The ground state at 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 and quantum Hall plateaus. Away from , 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PRB