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Wave Function of the Largest Skyrmion on a Sphere

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

It has been clarified that charged excitation known as a skyrmion exists around the ferromagnetic ground state at the Landau level filling factor ν=1/q\nu=1/q, where qq is an odd integer. An infinite sized skyrmion is realized in the absence of the spin-Zeeman splitting or for double-layered systems. Analytical form of the wave function is identified at ν=1\nu=1 and ν=1/3\nu=1/3 through exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian for finite sized spherical systems. It is clarified that the skyrmion wave functions at ν=1\nu=1 and ν=1/3\nu=1/3 are qualitatively different: they are not related by the composite fermion transformation. Long-range behavior of the skyrmion wave function around ν=1\nu=1 is shown to be consistent with the semiclassical picture of the skyrmion.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9806363,
  title  = {Wave Function of the Largest Skyrmion on a Sphere},
  author = {Daijiro Yoshioka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9806363},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages. to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol.67 No.10. Three references are added