570 research outputs found
Spontaneous Interlayer Charge Transfer near the Magnetic Quantum Limit
Experiments reveal that a confined electron system with two equally-populated
layers at zero magnetic field can spontaneously break this symmetry through an
interlayer charge transfer near the magnetic quantum limit. New fractional
quantum Hall states at unusual total filling factors such as \nu = 11/15 (= 1/3
+ 2/5) stabilize as signatures that the system deforms itself, at substantial
electrostatic energy cost, in order to gain crucial correlation energy by
"locking in" separate incompressible liquid phases at unequal fillings in the
two layers (e.g., layered 1/3 and 2/5 states in the case of \nu = 11/15).Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures (1 color) included in text. Related papers at
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Quantum Hall effect in single wide quantum wells
We study the quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level for a single wide
quantum well. Due to a separation of charges to opposite sides of the well, a
single wide well can be modelled as an effective two level system. We provide
numerical evidence of the existence of a phase transition from an
incompressible to a compressible state as the electron density is increased for
specific well width. Our numerical results show a critical electron density
which depends on well width, beyond which a transition incompressible double
layer quantum Hall state to a mono-layer compressible state occurs. We also
calculate the related phase boundary corresponding to destruction of the
collective mode energy gap. We show that the effective tunneling term and the
interlayer separation are both renormalised by the strong magnetic field. We
also exploite the local density functional techniques in the presence of strong
magnetic field at to calculate renormalized . The
numerical results shows good agreement between many-body calculations and local
density functional techniques in the presence of a strong magnetic field at
. we also discuss implications of this work on the
incompressible state observed in SWQW.Comment: 30 pages, 7 figures (figures are not included
The Collision of Two Black Holes
We study the head-on collision of two equal mass, nonrotating black holes. We
consider a range of cases from holes surrounded by a common horizon to holes
initially separated by about , where is the mass of each hole. We
determine the waveforms and energies radiated for both the and
waves resulting from the collision. In all cases studied the normal
modes of the final black hole dominate the spectrum. We also estimate
analytically the total gravitational radiation emitted, taking into account the
tidal heating of horizons using the membrane paradigm, and other effects. For
the first time we are able to compare analytic calculations, black hole
perturbation theory, and strong field, nonlinear numerical calculations for
this problem, and we find excellent agreement.Comment: 14 pages, 93-
Topological Phase Transition in the Quantum Hall Effect
The double layer fractional quantum Hall system is studied using
the edge state formalism and finite-size diagonalization subject to periodic
boundary conditions. Transitions between three different ground states are
observed as the separation as well as the tunneling between the two layers is
varied. Experimental consequences are discussed.Comment: 11 pages, REVTEX v3.0, 7 figure
Degeneracy of Multi-Component Quantum Hall States Satisfying Periodic Boundary Conditions
In systems subject to periodic boundary conditions, Haldane has shown that
states at arbitrary filling fraction possess a degeneracy with respect to
center of mass translations. An analysis is carried out for multi-component
electron systems and extra degeneracies are shown to exist. Their application
to numerical studies is discussed.Comment: 16 pages, REVTEX v3.0, revised manuscrip
Generalised Chern-Simons Theory of Composite Fermions in Bilayer Hall Systems
We present a field theory of Jain's composite fermion model as generalised to
the bilayer quantum Hall systems. We define operators which create composite
fermions and write the Hamiltonian exactly in terms of these operators. This is
seen to be a complexified version of the familiar Chern Simons theory. In the
mean-field approximation, the composite fermions feel a modified effective
magnetic field exactly as happens in usual Chern Simons theories, and plateaus
are predicted at the same values of filling factors as Lopez and Fradkin and
Halperin . But unlike normal Chern Simons theories, we obtain all features of
the first-quantised wavefunctions including its phase, modulus and correct
gaussian factors at the mean field level. The familiar Jain relations for
monolayers and the Halperin wavefunction for bilayers come out as special
cases.Comment: Revtex file; 20 pages after processing; no figure
Evidence for a Goldstone Mode in a Double Layer Quantum Hall System
The tunneling conductance between two parallel 2D electron systems has been
measured in a regime of strong interlayer Coulomb correlations. At total Landau
level filling the tunnel spectrum changes qualitatively when the
boundary separating the compressible phase from the ferromagnetic quantized
Hall state is crossed. A huge resonant enhancement replaces the strongly
suppressed equilibrium tunneling characteristic of weakly coupled layers. The
possible relationship of this enhancement to the Goldstone mode of the broken
symmetry ground state is discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 2 minor typeos fixe
Critical Phenomena in Neutron Stars I: Linearly Unstable Nonrotating Models
We consider the evolution in full general relativity of a family of linearly
unstable isolated spherical neutron stars under the effects of very small,
perturbations as induced by the truncation error. Using a simple ideal-fluid
equation of state we find that this system exhibits a type-I critical
behaviour, thus confirming the conclusions reached by Liebling et al. [1] for
rotating magnetized stars. Exploiting the relative simplicity of our system, we
are able carry out a more in-depth study providing solid evidences of the
criticality of this phenomenon and also to give a simple interpretation of the
putative critical solution as a spherical solution with the unstable mode being
the fundamental F-mode. Hence for any choice of the polytropic constant, the
critical solution will distinguish the set of subcritical models migrating to
the stable branch of the models of equilibrium from the set of subcritical
models collapsing to a black hole. Finally, we study how the dynamics changes
when the numerically perturbation is replaced by a finite-size, resolution
independent velocity perturbation and show that in such cases a nearly-critical
solution can be changed into either a sub or supercritical. The work reported
here also lays the basis for the analysis carried in a companion paper, where
the critical behaviour in the the head-on collision of two neutron stars is
instead considered [2].Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure
Correlated few-electron states in vertical double-quantum-dot systems
The electronic properties of semiconductor, vertical, double quantum dot
systems with few electrons are investigated by means of analytic,
configuration-interaction, and mean-field methods. The combined effect of a
high magnetic field, electrostatic confinement, and inter-dot coupling, induces
a new class of few-electron ground states absent in single quantum dots. In
particular, the role played by the isospin (or quantum dot index) in
determining the appearance of new ground states is analyzed and compared with
the role played by the standard spin.Comment: 20 pages, Latex, figures upon request. To appear in Phys. Rev. B
(January 1995
Tunneling Between a Pair of Parallel Hall Droplets
In this paper, we examine interwell tunneling between a pair of fractional
quantum Hall liquids in a double quantum well system in a tilted magnetic
field. Using a variational Monte Carlo method, we calculate moments of the
intra-Landau level tunneling spectrum as a function of in-plane field component
and interwell spacing . This is done for variety of
incompressible states including a pair of layers ([330]), pair of
layers ([550]), and Halperin's [331] state. The results suggest a
technique to extract interwell correlations from the tunneling spectral data.Comment: 21 pages and 8 figures (included), RevTeX, preprint no. UCSDCU
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