Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Hres HR,, CX H/n. Holds: of The Flux (L / V

    Uploaded by

    Supriya
    8 views1 page
    General Document 310

    Original Title

    00736___7fc2e87ac7499c44e88391f2aa3d5131

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    General Document 310

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    8 views1 page

    Hres HR,, CX H/n. Holds: of The Flux (L / V

    Uploaded by

    Supriya
    General Document 310

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    of 1

    720 Ch.

    12 Quantum Hall Effect

    CFs see only one 40 per particle as an external field because the rest of
    the flux piercing the sample has become part of the particles.
    We carry over the idea to states with v = n/(2n l), which are +
    pictured to contain n Landau bands filled with CFs. From the original
    flux H*27d2/v= (p,/u per electron, 240 is defined into the CFs. The rest
    of the flux ( l / v - 2)40 = &/n corresponds to a residual external field
    Hreswhich governs the behaviour of the CFs. At the v = n/(2n 1) +
    plateau, CFs see a residual field Hr,, cx H/n. The same holds for
    their cyclotron energies, and consequently, the correlation gap of the
    FQHE states should vanish as n + 00. This is indeed observed30 [93].
    At v = 1/2 (n + 00)) the composite fermions see no external field
    at all, and form a Fermi liquid. This is the origin of the “Hall metal”
    phase which we show in Fig. 12.8. The transformation (12.120)-(12.121)
    generates another Hall metal at 1/4, etc. This is also confirmed by
    experiment.
    At the first sight, the (integer-charged) composite fermions appear
    even more artificial than the fractionally charged quasi particle^^'. How-
    ever, experiments show that they are amazingly real [377]. If the ef-
    fective external field is really that weak, one should observe ballistic
    transport in a dilute gas of composite fermions; and indeed one does.
    It is worth emphasizing that, in spite of its phenomelogical similarity
    to a free-electron metal, the u = 1/2 Fermi liquid is an even more exotic
    state of matter than the incompressible quantum fluid states are. For
    the latter, the Laughlin and Jain wave functions give a pretty good idea
    about the structure of the ground state. We do not have a comparable
    insight into the nature of the Hall metal.
    At sufficiently large levels of disorder, the system is a Hall insulator
    characterized by the absence of Hall plateaus, and an activated uzz. Far
    to the right of the phase diagram (beyond 1/5), one expects a Wigner
    crystal ground state at 23 = 0. It is believed that even a small disorder
    is enough to break up the Wigner crystal into a random array of crys-

    30Experimentally,we have a sample with a given electron density, and the external
    field is swept in an interval containing H v , l / z .
    31The~e are not conflicting concepts! We use the CFs to construct the ground state
    +
    at ideal fillings v = n/(2n 1). The excitations above these ground states carry the
    +
    fractional charge * e / ( 2 n 1).

    You might also like