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Quantum Hall Ferromagnets: Induced Topological term and electromagnetic interactions
The quantum Hall ground state in materials like GaAs is well known
to be ferromagnetic in nature. The exchange part of the Coulomb interaction
provides the necessary attractive force to align the electron spins
spontaneously. The gapless Goldstone modes are the angular deviations of the
magnetisation vector from its fixed ground state orientation. Furthermore, the
system is known to support electrically charged spin skyrmion configurations.
It has been claimed in the literature that these skyrmions are fermionic owing
to an induced topological Hopf term in the effective action governing the
Goldstone modes. However, objections have been raised against the method by
which this term has been obtained from the microscopics of the system. In this
article, we use the technique of the derivative expansion to derive, in an
unambiguous manner, the effective action of the angular degrees of freedom,
including the Hopf term. Furthermore, we have coupled perturbative
electromagnetic fields to the microscopic fermionic system in order to study
their effect on the spin excitations. We have obtained an elegant expression
for the electromagnetic coupling of the angular variables describing these spin
excitations.Comment: 23 pages, Plain TeX, no figure
Effects of charge doping and constrained magnetization on the electronic structure of an FeSe monolayer
The electronic structural properties in the presence of constrained
magnetization and a charged background are studied for a monolayer of FeSe in
non-magnetic, checkerboard-, and striped-antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin
configurations. First principles techniques based on the pseudopotential
density functional approach and the local spin density approximation are
utilized. Our findings show that the experimentally observed shape of the Fermi
surface is best described by the checkerboard AFM spin pattern. To explore the
underlying pairing mechanism, we study the evolution of the non-magnetic to the
AFM-ordered structures under constrained magnetization. We estimate the
strength of electronic coupling to magnetic excitations involving an increase
in local moment and, separately, a partial moment transfer from one Fe atom to
another. We also show that the charge doping in the FeSe can lead to an
increase in the density of states at the Fermi level and possibly produce
higher superconducting transition temperatures
Quantum Numbers of Textured Hall Effect Quasiparticles
We propose a class of variational wave functions with slow variation in spin
and charge density and simple vortex structure at infinity, which properly
generalize both the Laughlin quasiparticles and baby Skyrmions. We argue that
the spin of the corresponding quasiparticle has a fractional part related in a
universal fashion to the properties of the bulk state, and propose a direct
experimental test of this claim. We show that certain spin-singlet quantum Hall
states can be understood as arising from primary polarized states by Skyrmion
condensation.Comment: 13 pages, no figures, Phyzz
Strain-controlled band engineering and self-doping in ultrathin LaNiO films
We report on a systematic study of the temperature-dependent Hall coefficient
and thermoelectric power in ultra-thin metallic LaNiO films that reveal a
strain-induced, self-doping carrier transition that is inaccessible in the
bulk. As the film strain varies from compressive to tensile at fixed
composition and stoichiometry, the transport coefficients evolve in a manner
strikingly similar to those of bulk hole-doped superconducting cuprates with
varying doping level. Density functional calculations reveal that the
strain-induced changes in the transport properties are due to self-doping in
the low-energy electronic band structure. The results imply that thin-film
epitaxy can serve as a new means to achieve hole-doping in other (negative)
charge-transfer gap transition metal oxides without resorting to chemical
substitution
Spin-Pseudospin Coherence and CP Skyrmions in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
We analyze bilayer quantum Hall ferromagnets, whose underlying symmetry group
is SU(4). Spin-pseudospin coherence develops spontaneously when the total
electron density is low enough. Quasiparticles are CP^3 skyrmions. One skyrmion
induces charge modulations on both of the two layers. At the filling factor one elementary excitation consists of a pair of skyrmions and its charge
is . Recent experimental data due to Sawada et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf
80}, 4534 (1998)] support this conclusion.Comment: 4 pages including 2 figures (published version
Solution of the Fokker-Planck equation with a logarithmic potential and mixed eigenvalue spectrum
Motivated by a problem in climate dynamics, we investigate the solution of a
Bessel-like process with negative constant drift, described by a Fokker-Planck
equation with a potential V(x) = - [b \ln(x) + a\, x], for b>0 and a<0. The
problem belongs to a family of Fokker-Planck equations with logarithmic
potentials closely related to the Bessel process, that has been extensively
studied for its applications in physics, biology and finance. The Bessel-like
process we consider can be solved by seeking solutions through an expansion
into a complete set of eigenfunctions. The associated imaginary-time
Schroedinger equation exhibits a mix of discrete and continuous eigenvalue
spectra, corresponding to the quantum Coulomb potential describing the bound
states of the hydrogen atom. We present a technique to evaluate the
normalization factor of the continuous spectrum of eigenfunctions that relies
solely upon their asymptotic behavior. We demonstrate the technique by solving
the Brownian motion problem and the Bessel process both with a negative
constant drift. We conclude with a comparison with other analytical methods and
with numerical solutions.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figure
Electron-phonon interactions on a single-branch quantum Hall edge
We consider the effect of electron-phonon interactions on edge states in
quantum Hall systems with a single edge branch. The presence of electron-phonon
interactions modifies the single-particle propagator for general quantum Hall
edges, and, in particular, destroys the Fermi liquid even at integer filling.
The effect of the electron-phonon interactions may be detected experimentally
in the AC conductance or in the tunneling conductance between integer quantum
Hall edges.Comment: 9 pages (revtex) + one postscript file with 2 figures. A complete
postscript file with all figures + text (5 pages) is available from
http://FY.CHALMERS.SE/~eggert/fqh.ps or by request from [email protected]
Theory for Phase Transitions in Insulating Vanadium Oxide
We show that the recently proposed S=2 bond model with orbital degrees of
freedom for insulating VO not only explains the anomalous magnetic
ordering, but also other mysteries of the magnetic phase transition. The model
contains an additional orbital degree of freedom that exhibits a zero
temperature quantum phase transtion in the Ising universality class.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Wave Function of the Largest Skyrmion on a Sphere
It has been clarified that charged excitation known as a skyrmion exists
around the ferromagnetic ground state at the Landau level filling factor
, where is an odd integer. An infinite sized skyrmion is realized
in the absence of the spin-Zeeman splitting or for double-layered systems.
Analytical form of the wave function is identified at and
through exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian for finite sized spherical
systems. It is clarified that the skyrmion wave functions at and
are qualitatively different: they are not related by the composite
fermion transformation. Long-range behavior of the skyrmion wave function
around is shown to be consistent with the semiclassical picture of the
skyrmion.Comment: 4 pages. to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol.67 No.10. Three
references are adde
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