Understanding the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect without the Pfaffian Wave Function
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-11 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
It is demonstrated that an understanding of the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect can be achieved within the composite fermion theory without appealing to the Pfaffian wave function. The residual interaction between composite fermions plays a crucial role in establishing incompressibility at this filling factor. This approach has the advantage of being amenable to systematic perturbative improvements, and produces ground as well as excited states. It, however, does not relate to non-Abelian statistics in any obvious manner.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606610,
title = {Understanding the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect without the Pfaffian Wave Function},
author = {Csaba Toke and Jainendra K. Jain},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606610},
year = {2009}
}