75 research outputs found
Interaction-tuned compressible-to-incompressible phase transitions in the quantum Hall systems
We analyze transitions between quantum Hall ground states at prominent
filling factors in the spherical geometry by tuning the width parameter
of the Zhang-Das Sarma interaction potential. We find that incompressible
ground states evolve adiabatically under this tuning, whereas the compressible
ones are driven through a first order phase transition. Overlap calculations
show that the resulting phase is increasingly well described by appropriate
analytic model wavefunctions (Laughlin, Moore-Read, Read-Rezayi). This scenario
is shared by both odd () and even
denominator states (). In particular, the Fermi
liquid-like state at gives way, at large enough value of the width
parameter, to an incompressible state identified as the Moore-Read Pfaffian on
the basis of its entanglement spectrum.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures; modified version as appears in PR
Competing Abelian and non-Abelian topological orders in ν=1/3+1/3 quantum Hall bilayers
Bilayer quantum Hall systems, realized either in two separated wells or in the lowest two subbands of a wide quantum well, provide an experimentally realizable way to tune between competing quantum orders at the same filling fraction. Using newly developed density matrix renormalization group techniques combined with exact diagonalization, we return to the problem of quantum Hall bilayers at filling ν=1/3+1/3. We first consider the Coulomb interaction at bilayer separation d, bilayer tunneling energy ΔSAS, and individual layer width w, where we find a phase diagram which includes three competing Abelian phases: a bilayer Laughlin phase (two nearly decoupled ν=1/3 layers), a bilayer spin-singlet phase, and a bilayer symmetric phase. We also study the order of the transitions between these phases. A variety of non-Abelian phases has also been proposed for these systems. While absent in the simplest phase diagram, by slightly modifying the interlayer repulsion we find a robust non-Abelian phase which we identify as the "interlayer-Pfaffian" phase. In addition to non-Abelian statistics similar to the Moore-Read state, it exhibits a novel form of bilayer-spin charge separation. Our results suggest that ν=1/3+1/3 systems merit further experimental study
Fractional quantum Hall effects in bilayers in the presence of inter-layer tunneling and charge imbalance
Two-component fractional quantum Hall systems are providing a major
motivation for a large section of the physics community. Here we study
two-component fractional quantum Hall systems in the spin-polarized half-filled
lowest Landau level (filling factor 1/2) and second Landau level (filling
factor 5/2) with exact diagonalization utilizing both the spherical and torus
geometries. The two distinct two-component systems we consider are the true
bilayer and effective bilayers (wide-quantum-well). In each model (bilayer and
wide-quantum-well) we completely take into account inter-layer tunneling and
charge imbalancing terms. We find that in the half-filled lowest Landau level,
the FQHE is described by the two-component Abelian Halperin 331 state which is
remarkably robust to charge imbalancing. In the half-filled second Landau, we
find that the FQHE is likely described by the non-Abelian Moore-Read Pfaffian
state which is also quite robust to charge imbalancing. Furthermore, we suggest
the possibility of experimentally tuning from an Abelian to non-Abelian FQHE
state in the second Landau level, and comment on recent experimental studies of
FQHE in wide quantum well structures.Comment: 25 pages, 27 figure
Interferometric probes of many-body localization
We propose a method for detecting many-body localization (MBL) in disordered
spin systems. The method involves pulsed, coherent spin manipulations that
probe the dephasing of a given spin due to its entanglement with a set of
distant spins. It allows one to distinguish the MBL phase from a
non-interacting localized phase and a delocalized phase. In particular, we show
that for a properly chosen pulse sequence the MBL phase exhibits a
characteristic power-law decay reflecting its slow growth of entanglement. We
find that this power-law decay is robust with respect to thermal and disorder
averaging, provide numerical simulations supporting our results, and discuss
possible experimental realizations in solid-state and cold atom systems.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Evidence for a topological "exciton Fermi sea" in bilayer graphene
The quantum Hall physics of bilayer graphene is extremely rich due to the interplay between a layer degree of freedom and delicate fractional states. Recent experiments show that when an electric field perpendicular to the bilayer causes Landau levels of opposing layers to cross in energy, a even-denominator Hall plateau can coexist with a finite density of inter-layer excitons. We present theoretical and numerical evidence that this observation is due to a new phase of matter - a Fermi sea of topological excitons
Comparison of the density-matrix renormalization group method applied to fractional quantum Hall systems in different geometries
We report a systematic study of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE)
using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method on two different
geometries: the sphere and the cylinder. We provide convergence benchmarks
based on model Hamiltonians known to possess exact zero-energy ground states,
as well as an analysis of the number of sweeps and basis elements that need to
be kept in order to achieve the desired accuracy.The ground state energies of
the Coulomb Hamiltonian at and filling are extracted and
compared with the results obtained by previous DMRG implementations in the
literature. A remarkably rapid convergence in the cylinder geometry is noted
and suggests that this boundary condition is particularly suited for the
application of the DMRG method to the FQHE.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figure
Deformed Fredkin model for the ν=5/2 Moore-Read state on thin cylinders
We propose a frustration-free model for the Moore-Read quantum Hall state on sufficiently thin cylinders with circumferences ≲7 magnetic lengths. While the Moore-Read Hamiltonian involves complicated long-range interactions between triplets of electrons in a Landau level, our effective model is a simpler one-dimensional chain of qubits with deformed Fredkin gates. We show that the ground state of the Fredkin model has high overlap with the Moore-Read wave function and accurately reproduces the latter's entanglement properties. Moreover, we demonstrate that the model captures the dynamical response of the Moore-Read state to a geometric quench, induced by suddenly changing the anisotropy of the system. We elucidate the underlying mechanism of the quench dynamics and show that it coincides with the linearized bimetric field theory. The minimal model introduced here can be directly implemented as a first step towards quantum simulation of the Moore-Read state, as we demonstrate by deriving an efficient circuit approximation to the ground state and implementing it on an IBM quantum processor
Fractional quantum Hall state at \nu=1/4 in a wide quantum well
We investigate, with the help of Monte-Carlo and exact-diagonalization
calculations in the spherical geometry, several compressible and incompressible
candidate wave functions for the recently observed quantum Hall state at the
filling factor in a wide quantum well. The quantum well is modeled as
a two-component system by retaining its two lowest subbands. We make a direct
connection with the phenomenological effective-bilayer model, which is commonly
used in the description of a wide quantum well, and we compare our findings
with the established results at in the lowest Landau level. At
, the overlap calculations for the Halperin (5,5,3) and (7,7,1)
states, the generalized Haldane-Rezayi state and the Moore-Read Pfaffian,
suggest that the incompressible state is likely to be realized in the interplay
between the Halperin (5,5,3) state and the Moore-Read Pfaffian. Our numerics
shows the latter to be very susceptible to changes in the interaction
coefficients, thus indicating that the observed state is of multicomponent
nature.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures; minor changes, accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
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