212 research outputs found
Universality of the edge tunneling exponent of fractional quantum Hall liquids
Recent calculations of the edge tunneling exponents in quantum Hall states
appear to contradict their topological nature. We revisit this issue and find
no fundamental discrepancies. In a microscopic model of fractional quantum Hall
liquids with electron-electron interaction and confinement, we calculate the
edge Green's function via exact diagonalization. Our results for
and 2/3 suggest that in the presence of Coulomb interaction, the sharpness of
the edge and the strength of the edge confining potential, which can lead to
edge reconstruction, are the parameters that are relevant to the universality
of the electron tunneling I-V exponent.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Density Matrix Renormalization Group Study of Incompressible Fractional Quantum Hall States
We develop the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) technique for
numerically studying incompressible fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states on the
sphere. We calculate accurate estimates for ground state energies and
excitationgaps at FQH filling fractions \nu=1/3 and \nu=5/2 for systems that
are almost twice as large as the largest ever studied by exact diagonalization.
We establish, by carefully comparing with existing numerical results on smaller
systems, that DMRG is a highly effective numerical tool for studying
incompressible FQH states.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Generalized Quantum Hall Projection Hamiltonians
Certain well known quantum Hall states -- including the Laughlin states, the
Moore-Read Pfaffian, and the Read-Rezayi Parafermion states -- can be defined
as the unique lowest degree symmetric analytic function that vanishes as at
least p powers as some number (g+1) of particles approach the same point.
Analogously, these same quantum Hall states can be generated as the exact
highest density zero energy state of simple angular momentum projection
operators. Following this theme we determine the highest density zero energy
state for many other values of p and g.Comment: 9 page
Non-Abelian quantized Hall states of electrons at filling factors 12/5 and 13/5 in the first excited Landau level
We present results of extensive numerical calculations on the ground state of
electrons in the first excited (n=1) Landau level with Coulomb interactions,
and including non-zero thickness effects, for filling factors 12/5 and 13/5 in
the torus geometry. In a region that includes these experimentally-relevant
values, we find that the energy spectrum and the overlaps with the trial states
support the previous hypothesis that the system is in the non-Abelian k = 3
liquid phase we introduced in a previous paper.Comment: 5 pages (Revtex4), 7 figure
Coulomb and Hard Core Skyrmion Tails
Quantum Hall skyrmions are quantized solitons of a ferromagnetic O(3)
sigma-model. The reference, classical, solutions depend upon the interaction
between the electrons and exhibit completely different asymptotic profiles for
the physical Coulomb interaction than for the model hard core interaction
frequently used to generate variational wavefunctions. In this note we show, by
means of numerical calculations on (large) finite size systems at nu=1, that
this physically important difference, crucial for a sharp definition of their
statistics, persists for the quantized skyrmions at n=1.Comment: Revtex 9 pages, figs.ps files at
ftp://landau.calstatela.edu/pub/tailfig
Non-Abelian spin-singlet quantum Hall states: wave functions and quasihole state counting
We investigate a class of non-Abelian spin-singlet (NASS) quantum Hall
phases, proposed previously. The trial ground and quasihole excited states are
exact eigenstates of certain k+1-body interaction Hamiltonians. The k=1 cases
are the familiar Halperin Abelian spin-singlet states. We present closed-form
expressions for the many-body wave functions of the ground states, which for
k>1 were previously defined only in terms of correlators in specific conformal
field theories. The states contain clusters of k electrons, each cluster having
either all spins up, or all spins down. The ground states are non-degenerate,
while the quasihole excitations over these states show characteristic
degeneracies, which give rise to non-Abelian braid statistics. Using conformal
field theory methods, we derive counting rules that determine the degeneracies
in a spherical geometry. The results are checked against explicit numerical
diagonalization studies for small numbers of particles on the sphere.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, RevTe
Edge Excitations and Non-Abelian Statistics in the Moore-Read State: A Numerical Study in the Presence of Coulomb Interaction and Edge Confinement
We study the ground state and low-energy excitations of fractional quantum
Hall systems on a disk at filling fraction , with Coulomb
interaction and background confining potential. We find the Moore-Read ground
state is stable within a finite but narrow window in parameter space. The
corresponding low-energy excitations contain a fermionic branch and a bosonic
branch, with widely different velocities. A short-range repulsive potential can
stabilize a charge quasihole at the center, leading to a different edge
excitation spectrum due to the change of boundary conditions for Majorana
fermions, clearly indicating the non-Abelian nature of the quasihole.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. New version shortened for PRL. Corrected typo
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