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Observation of Incompressibility at $\nu=4/11$ and $\nu=5/13$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-03-05 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The region of filling factors 1/3<ν<2/51/3<\nu<2/5 is predicted to support new types of fractional quantum Hall states with topological order different from that of the Laughlin-Jain or the Moore-Read states. Incompressibility is a necessary condition for the formation of such novel topological states. We find that at 6.9~mK incompressibility develops only at ν=4/11\nu=4/11 and 5/135/13, while the states at ν=6/17\nu=6/17 and 3/83/8 remain compressible. Our observations at ν=4/11\nu=4/11 and 5/135/13 are first steps towards understanding emergent topological order in these fractional quantum Hall states.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8186,
  title  = {Observation of Incompressibility at $\nu=4/11$ and $\nu=5/13$},
  author = {N. Samkharadze and I. Arnold and L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West and G. A. Csáthy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8186},
  year   = {2015}
}