2023/11/27 by Arup Kumar Paul, Priya Tiwari, Paul, Arup Kumar +7 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.15787
The even denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states ν=5/2 and ν=7/2 have been long predicted to host non-abelian quasiparticles (QPs). Their present energy-carrying neutral modes are hidden from customary conductance measurements and thus motivate thermal transport measurements, which are sensitive to all energy-carrying modes. While past `two-terminal' thermal conductance (k2tT) measurements already proved the non-Abelian nature of the ν=5/2 FQH state, they might have been prone to a lack of thermal equilibration among the counter-propagating edge modes. Here, we report a novel thermal Hall conductance measurement of the ν=5/2 and ν=7/2 states, being insensitive to equilibration among edge modes. We verify the state's non-Abelian nature, with both states supporting a single upstream Majorana edge mode (hence, a particle-hole Pfaffian order). While current numerical works predict a different topological order, this contribution should motivate further theoretical work.