Non-Abelian Fibonacci quantum Hall states in 4-layer rhombohedral stacked graphene
Abstract
It is known that -degenerate Landau levels with the same spin-valley quantum number can be realized by -layer graphene with rhombohedral stacking under magnetic field . We find that the wave functions of degenerate Landau levels are concentrated at the surface layers of the multi-layer graphene if the dimensionless ratio , where is the interlayer hopping energy and the Fermi velocity of single-layer graphene. This allows us to suggest that: 1) filling fraction (or ) non-Abelian state with Ising anyon can be realized in three-layer graphene for magnetic field Tesla; 2) filling fraction (or ) non-Abelian state with Fibonacci anyon can be realized in four-layer graphene for magnetic field Tesla. Here, is the total filling fraction in the degenerate Landau levels, and is the filling fraction measured from charge neutrality point which determines the measured Hall conductance. We have assumed the following conditions to obtain the above results: the exchange effect of Coulomb interaction polarizes the spin-valley quantum number in the degenerate Landau levels and effective dielectric constant to reduce the Coulomb interaction. The high density of states of multi-layer graphene helps to reduce the Coulomb interaction via screening.
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@article{arxiv.2308.09702,
title = {Non-Abelian Fibonacci quantum Hall states in 4-layer rhombohedral stacked graphene},
author = {Abigail Timmel and Xiao-Gang Wen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.09702},
year = {2023}
}
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5 pages, 2 figure