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Composite Fermion Approach to the Quantum Hall Hierarchy: When it Works and Why
The mean field composite Fermion (MFCF) picture has been qualitatively
successful when applied to electrons (or holes) in the lowest Landau level.
Because the energy scales associated with Coulomb interactions and with
Chern-Simons gauge field interactions are different, there is no rigorous
justification of the qualitative success of the MFCF picture. Here we show that
what the MFCF picture does is to select from all the allowed angular momentum
(L) multiplets of N electrons on a sphere, a subset with smaller values of L.
For this subset, the coefficients of fractional parentage for pair states with
small relative angular momentum (and therefore large repulsion) either
vanish or they are small. This set of states forms the lowest energy sector of
the spectrum.Comment: RevTeX + 3 EPS figures formatted into the text with epsf.sty to
appear in Solid State Communication
Excitations of the Fractional Quantum Hall State and the Generalized Composite Fermion Picture
We present a generalization of the composite Fermion picture for a
muticomponent quantum Hall plasma which contains particle with different
effective charges. The model predicts very well the low-lying states of a
quantum Hall state found in numerical diagonalization.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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