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Comment on "Cooper instability of composite fermions"

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We comment on the recent paper by Scarola, Park, and Jain [Nature v. 406, p. 863 (2000); cond-mat/0012030] on a trial wavefunction calculation of pairing in a fractional quantum Hall system at nu=5/2. We point out two errors that invalidate the claimed calculations of a binding energy for Cooper pairs and of an energy gap for charged excitations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0010071,
  title  = {Comment on "Cooper instability of composite fermions"},
  author = {N. Read},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0010071},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

3 pages, RevTeX, not submitted to Nature. V2: reference to web version cond-mat/0012030 added

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