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Fibonacci anyons and charge density order in the 12/5 and 13/5 plateaus

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-03-29 v3

Abstract

The ν=12/5\nu=12/5 fractional quantum Hall plateau observed in GaAs\mathrm{GaAs} 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 ν=12/5\nu = 12/5 and ν=13/5\nu=13/5 are in the k=3k = 3 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 ν=13/5\nu = 13/5 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 ν=12/5\nu = 12/5 and 13/513/5. We find that at ν=12/5\nu=12/5 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