Half-Filled Lowest Landau Level on a Thin Torus

2004/06/30 by Emil J. Bergholtz, Anders Karlhede · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.026802

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 026802 (2005) · 4 pages, 1 figure

arxiv created 2005/01/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We solve a model that describes an interacting electron gas in the half-filled lowest Landau level on a thin torus, with radius of the order of the magnetic length. The low energy sector consists of non-interacting, one-dimensional, neutral fermions. The ground state, which is homogeneous, is the Fermi sea obtained by filling the negative energy states and the excited states are gapless neutral excitations out of this one-dimensional sea. Although the limit considered is extreme, the solution has a striking resemblance to the composite fermion description of the bulk ν=1/2 state--the ground state is homogeneous and the excitations are neutral and gapless. This suggests a one-dimensional Luttinger liquid description, with possible observable effects in transport experiments, of the bulk state where it develops continuously from the state on a thin torus as the radius increases.

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