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Integral charge quasiparticles in a fractional quantum Hall liquid

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Starting from a collective description of the incompressible fractional quantum Hall liquid as an elastic medium that supports gapped neutral excitations I show that the one-electron spectral function of this system exhibits a sharp peak at the lowest available excitation energy, well separated from the continuum spectrum at higher energy. I interpret this peak as the signature of the integral charge quasiparticle recently predicted by Peterson and Jain\cite{Jain05}, and calculate its spectral weight for different filling factors.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0507038,
  title  = {Integral charge quasiparticles in a fractional quantum Hall liquid},
  author = {Giovanni Vignale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0507038},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures