Fermi wave vector for the non-fully spin polarized composite-fermion Fermi sea

Abstract

The fully spin polarized composite fermion (CF) Fermi sea at half filled lowest Landau level has a Fermi wave vector $k^*_{\rm F}=\sqrt{4πρ_e}$, where $ρ_e$ is the density of electrons or composite fermions, supporting the notion that the interaction between composite fermions can be treated perturbatively. Away from $ν=1/2$, the area is seen to be consistent with $k^*_{\rm F}=\sqrt{4πρ_e}$ for $ν<1/2$ but $k^*_{\rm F}=\sqrt{4πρ_h}$ for $ν>1/2$, where $ρ_h$ is the density of holes in the lowest Landau level. This result is consistent with particle-hole symmetry in the lowest Landau level. We investigate in this article the Fermi wave vector of the spin-singlet CF Fermi sea (CFFS) at $ν=1/2$, for which particle-hole symmetry is not a consideration. Using the microscopic CF theory, we find that for the spin-singlet CFFS the Fermi wave vectors for up and down spin CFFSs at $ν=1/2$ are consistent with $k^{*\uparrow,\downarrow}_{\rm F}=\sqrt{4πρ^{\uparrow,\downarrow}_e}$, where $ρ^{\uparrow}_e=ρ^{\downarrow}_e=ρ_e/2$, which implies that the residual interactions between composite fermions do not cause a non-perturbative correction for non-fully spin polarized CFFS either. Our results suggest the natural conjecture that for arbitrary spin polarization the CF Fermi wave vectors are given by $k^{*\uparrow}_{\rm F}=\sqrt{4πρ^{\uparrow}_e}$ and $k^{*\downarrow}_{\rm F}=\sqrt{4πρ^{\downarrow}_e}$.