2024/06/10 by G.‐Q. Hai, Hai, Guo-Qiang
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.06212
openalex publication_date 2024/06/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study two interacting electrons in a two-dimensional system under a strong magnetic field and show that their numerically exact solutions organize into a set of \em sub-Landau levels characterized by relative angular momentum quantum number m. These sub-levels define correlation-resolved subspaces of the Landau-level Hilbert space, while retaining the full degeneracy associated with center-of-mass motion. Within this structure, the accessible states in each correlation channel are effectively reduced, leading to a natural organization of guiding-center states consistent with a fractional occupancy. We further analyze the role of electron correlation, Zeeman splitting, and disorder in stabilizing spin-polarized electron-pair states. Building on the two-electron states, we construct a class of many-electron trial wavefunctions based on correlated electron pairs with fixed m, which encode short-range correlations through the vanishing of the pair wavefunction at small separation. Our results establish a direct connection between exact two-body physics and the organization of correlated many-electron states in the lowest Landau level, providing a microscopic perspective on how relative angular momentum structures can underpin the emergence of correlated phases in quantum Hall systems.