arXiv · cond-mat/0310708
Nature of quasiparticle excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Abstract
We investigate the 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state with one and two quasiparticle excitations. It is shown that the quasiparticle excitations are best described as excited composite fermions occupying higher composite-fermion quasi-Landau levels. In particular, the composite-fermion wave function for a single quasiparticle has 15% lower energy than the trial wave function suggested by Laughlin, and for two quasiparticles, the composite fermion theory also gives new qualitative structures.
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Gun Sang Jeon, Jainendra K. Jain. 2003-10-29. Nature of quasiparticle excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.68.165346
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