Ajit C. Balram

Nature of composite fermions and the role of particle-hole symmetry: A microscopic account

Motivated by the particle-hole symmetry at the half-filled lowest Landau level, many articles have taken the point of view, following D. T. Son, that composite fermions are Dirac particles and their Fermi sea is akin to that occurring at the surface of a three dimensional topological insulator. This presents a paradox, because the microscopic theory of composite fermions, which treats composite fermions as non-relativistic particles, has been confirmed in great detail. The authors discuss what features of the Dirac-composite fermion view can be reconciled with the microscopic theory. They also show how particle-hole symmetry can emerge in the Chern-Simons formulation of composite fermions.

Luttinger Theorem for the Strongly Correlated Fermi Liquid of Composite Fermions

While an ordinary Fermi sea is perturbatively robust to interactions, the paradigmatic composite-fermion (CF) Fermi sea arises as a nonperturbative consequence of emergent gauge fields in a system where there was no Fermi sea to begin with. A mean-field picture suggests two Fermi seas, of composite fermions made from electrons or holes in the lowest Landau level, which occupy different areas away from half filling and thus appear to represent distinct states. Using the microscopic theory of composite fermions, which satisfies particle-hole symmetry in the lowest Landau level to an excellent approximation, we show that the Fermi wave vectors at filling factors ν and 1-ν are equal when expressed in units of the inverse magnetic length, and are generally consistent with the experimental findings of Kamburov et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 196801 (2014)]. Our calculations suggest that the area of the CF Fermi sea may slightly violate the Luttinger area rule.

Phase diagram of fractional quantum Hall effect of composite fermions in multicomponent systems

While the integer quantum Hall effect of composite fermions manifests as the prominent fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) of electrons, the FQHE of composite fermions produces further, more delicate states, arising from a weak residual interaction between composite fermions. We study the spin phase diagram of these states, motivated by the recent experimental observation by Liu and co-workers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246803 (2014) and private communication] of several spin-polarization transitions at 4/5, 5/7, 6/5, 9/7, 7/9, 8/11, and 10/13 in GaAs systems. We show that the FQHE of composite fermions is much more prevalent in multicomponent systems, and consider the feasibility of such states for systems with N components for an SU(N) symmetric interaction. Our results apply to GaAs quantum wells, wherein electrons have two components, to AlAs quantum wells and graphene, wherein electrons have four components (two spins and two valleys), and to an H-terminated Si(111) surface, which can have six components. The aim of this paper is to provide a fairly comprehensive list of possible incompressible fractional quantum Hall states of composite fermions, their SU(N) spin content, their energies, and their phase diagram as a function of the generalized “Zeeman” energy. We obtain results at three levels of approximation: from ground-state wave functions of the composite fermion theory, from composite fermion diagonalization, and, whenever possible, from exact diagonalization. Effects of finite quantum well thickness and Landau-level mixing are neglected in this study. We compare our theoretical results with the experiments of Liu and co-workers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246803 (2014) and private communication] as well as of Yeh et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 592 (1999)] for a two-component system.

Role of Exciton Screening in the 7 / 3 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

The excitations of the 7/3 fractional Hall state, one of the most prominent states in the second Landau level, are not understood. We study the effect of screening by composite fermion excitons and find that it causes a strong renormalization at 7/3, thanks to a relatively small exciton gap and a relatively large residual interaction between composite fermions. The excitations of the 7/3 state are to be viewed as composite fermions dressed by a large exciton cloud. Their wide extent has implications for experiments as well as for analysis of finite system exact diagonalization studies.

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene: Quantitative Comparison between Theory and Experiment

The observation of extensive fractional quantum Hall states in graphene brings out the possibility of more accurate quantitative comparisons between theory and experiment than previously possible, because of the negligibility of finite width corrections. We obtain an accurate phase diagram for differently spin-polarized fractional quantum Hall states, and also estimate the effect of Landau level mixing using the modified interaction pseudopotentials given in the literature. We find that the observed phase diagram is in good quantitative agreement with theory that neglects Landau level mixing, but the agreement becomes significantly worse when Landau level mixing is incorporated assuming that the corrections to the energies are linear in the Landau level mixing parameter

State Counting for Excited Bands of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Exclusion Rules for Bound Excitons

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