Fibonacci anyons and charge density order in the 12/5 and 13/5 plateaus
Abstract
The fractional quantum Hall plateau observed in semiconductor wells is a suspect in the search for non-Abelian Fibonacci anyons. Using the infinite density matrix renormalization group, we find clear evidence that fillings and are in the Read-Rezayi phase in the absence of particle-hole symmetry-breaking effects. The lowest energy charged excitation is identified as a non-Abelian Fibonacci anyon, distinguished from its Abelian counterpart by its local quadrupole moment. However, several experiments at observe a re-entrant integer quantum Hall effect, implying particle-hole symmetry is broken. We rule out spin polarization as the origin of the asymmetry. Further, we point out extremely close energetic competition between the Read-Rezayi phase and a re-entrant integer quantum Hall phase. This competition suggests that even small particle-hole symmetry-breaking perturbations can explain the experimentally observed asymmetry between and . We find that at Landau level mixing favors the Read-Rezayi phase over the re-entrant phase.
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@article{arxiv.1505.02843,
title = {Fibonacci anyons and charge density order in the 12/5 and 13/5 plateaus},
author = {Roger S. K. Mong and Michael P. Zaletel and Frank Pollmann and Zlatko Papić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02843},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
8 pages + appendices, 14 figures. v2 added data for Landau level mixing