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Dynamical Disentanglement across a Point Contact in a Non-Abelian Quantum Hall State

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We analyze tunneling of non-Abelian quasiparticles between the edges of a quantum Hall droplet at Landau level filling fraction nu=5/2, assuming that the electrons in the first excited Landau level organize themselves in the non-Abelian Moore-Read Pfaffian state. We formulate a bosonized theory of the modes at the two edges of a Hall bar; an effective spin-1/2 degree of freedom emerges in the description of a point contact. We show how the crossover from the high-temperature regime of weak quasiparticle tunneling between the edges of the droplet, with 4-terminal R_{xx} scaling as T^{-3/2}, to the low-temperature limit, with R_{xx} - h/(10 e^2) scaling as -T^4, is closely related to the two-channel Kondo effect. We give a physical interpretation for the entropy of \ln(2\sqrt{2}) which is lost in the flow from the ultraviolet to the infrared.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0604064,
  title  = {Dynamical Disentanglement across a Point Contact in a Non-Abelian Quantum Hall State},
  author = {Paul Fendley and Matthew P. A. Fisher and Chetan Nayak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0604064},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure