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The pair distribution function and the static structure factor are computed for composite fermions. Clear and robust evidence for a $2k_F$ structure is seen in a range of filling factors in the vicinity of the half-filled Landau level.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. K. Kamilla , J. K. Jain , S. M. Girvin

When confined to two dimensions and exposed to a strong magnetic field, electrons screen the Coulomb interaction in a topological fashion; they capture and even number of quantum vortices and transform into particl es called `composite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vito W. Scarola , Kwon Park , J. K. Jain

We investigate the semiclassical dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. By generalizing the $\alpha$ matrices to the spin-$S$ matrices and doing a certain scaling, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Moitri Maiti , R. Shankar

The fermion representation for S = 1/2 spins is generalized to spins with arbitrary magnitudes. The symmetry properties of the representation is analyzed where we find that the particle-hole symmetry in the spinon Hilbert space of S =1/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-28 Zheng-Xin Liu , Yi Zhou , Tai-Kai Ng

We consider the problem of Bosonic particles interacting repulsively in a strong magnetic field at the filling factor $\nu =1.$ We project the system in the Lowest Landau Level and map the dynamics into an interacting Fermion system. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Pasquier

Motivated by the observation of even denominator fractional quantum Hall effect in the $n=3$ Landau level of monolayer graphene [Y. Kim $\textit{et al.}$, Nature Physics $\textbf{15}$, 154 (2019)], we consider a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-05 Anirban Sharma , Songyang Pu , Ajit C. Balram , Jainendra K. Jain

The wavefunction of massless Dirac fermions is a two-component spinor. In graphene, a one-atom-thick film showing two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations, the two-component representation reflects the amplitude of the electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-22 Wen-Xiao Wang , Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Tuocheng Cai , Si-Yu Li , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Xiaosong Wu , Lin He

Following recent work of Halperin, Lee, and Read, and Kalmeyer and Zhang, a double-layer electron system with total Landau-level filling factor $\nu=1/2$ is mapped onto an equivalent system of fermions in zero average magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. E. Bonesteel

We propose a derivative operator formed as a function of derivatives of the electron coordinates. When the derivative operator is applied to the Laughlin wave function, two new wave functions in the lowest Landau level at filling factor 1/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-16 Jian Yang

We discuss the possibility of the quantum Hall effect at half-filled Landau level in terms of the pairing of the composite fermions. In the absence of Coulomb energy, we show that the ground state of the system is described by the {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takao Morinari

Excitation modes in the range $2/5 \geq \nu \geq 1/3$ of the fractional quantum Hall regime are observed by resonant inelastic light scattering. Spectra of spin reversed excitations suggest a structure of lowest spin-split Landau levels of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Irene Dujovne , A. Pinczuk , Moonsoo Kang , B. S. Dennis , L. N. Pfeiffer , W. K. West

We consider electrons in two dimensions in a strong magnetic field at half filling of the lowest Landau level using the Chern-Simons approach. Starting from a lattice Hamiltonian for the electrons, we derive a path integral (PI) formulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Weller , J. Dietel , Th. Koschny , W. Apel

We propose to describe bulk wave functions of fractional quantum Hall states in terms of correlators of non-unitary b/c-spin systems. These yield a promising conformal field theory analogon of the composite fermion picture of Jain.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Flohr , Klaus Osterloh

We introduce a particle-hole-symmetric metallic state of bosons in a magnetic field at odd-integer filling. This state hosts composite fermions whose energy dispersion features a quadratic band touching and corresponding $2\pi$ Berry flux…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 David F. Mross , Jason Alicea , Olexei I. Motrunich

We describe a new path integral approach to strongly correlated fermion systems, considering the Hubbard model as a specific example. Our approach is based on the introduction of spin-particle-hole coherent states which generalize the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-02 N. Dupuis

We develop a field theory for a partially filled Landau level based on composite fermions with a finite vortex core, whose mean-field states are exactly those described by well-tested trial wave functions. Despite non-orthogonality of free…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong-Shi Wu , Yue Yu

We consider the Hall conductivity of composite fermions in the theory of Halperin, Lee, and Read (HLR). We present a fully quantum mechanical numerical calculation that shows, under suitable conditions, the HLR theory exhibits a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-12 Prashant Kumar , Srinivas Raghu , Michael Mulligan

The composite fermion formalism elegantly describes some of the most fascinating behaviours of interacting two-dimensional carriers at low temperatures and in strong perpendicular magnetic fields. In this framework, carriers minimize their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 D. Kamburov , Yang Liu , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Composite fermions (CFs), exotic particles formed by pairing an even number of flux quanta to each electron, provide a fascinating description of phenomena exhibited by interacting two-dimensional electrons at high magnetic fields. At and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 D. Kamburov , Yang Liu , M. A. Mueed , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We propose a fermion Chern-Simons field theory describing two- dimensional electrons in the lowest Landau level. This theory is constructed with a complete set of states, and the lowest Landau level constraint is enforced through a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Lizeng Zhang