Cooperative ring exchange and the fractional quantum Hall effect
- 15 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 36 (3), 1620-1646
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.36.1620
Abstract
We study the transition of the interacting two-dimensional electron gas at high magnetic field from a low-density Wigner crystal to a higher-density correlated state which exhibits the fractionally quantized Hall effect. The phase transition is precipitated by a condensation of ring-exchange processes, which by nature of their sensitivity to enclosed magnetic flux allow for especially low-energy exchange condensates at certain values of the Landau-level filling factor, ν=. In the condensate, the exchanges mediate a logarithmic potential between local-density fluctuations, leading to a cusp in the ground-state energy as a function of ‖ν-‖ in the vicinity of a preferred state. In addition, we derive quasiparticle excitations of sharp fractional charge which are analogous to the excitations derived by Laughlin.
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