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Quantum Hall ferromagnetic states and spin-orbit interactions in the fractional regime

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The competition between the Zeeman energy and the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings is studied for fractional quantum Hall states by including correlation effects. A transition of the direction of the spin-polarization is predicted at specific values of the Zeeman energy. We show that these values can be expressed in terms of the pair-correlation function, and thus provide information about the microscopic ground state. We examine the particular examples of the Laughlin wavefunctions and the 5/2-Pfaffian state. We also include effects of the nuclear bath.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3332,
  title  = {Quantum Hall ferromagnetic states and spin-orbit interactions in the fractional regime},
  author = {S. Chesi and D. Loss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3332},
  year   = {2009}
}