arXiv · cond-mat/0412333
Reconstructing the electron in a fractionalized quantum fluid
Abstract
The low energy physics of the fractional Hall liquid is described in terms quasiparticles that are qualitatively distinct from electrons. We show, however, that a long-lived electron-like quasiparticle also exists in the excitation spectrum: the state obtained by the application of an electron creation operator to a fractional quantum Hall ground state has a non-zero overlap with a complex, high energy bound state containing an odd number of composite-fermion quasiparticles. The electron annihilation operator similarly couples to a bound complex of composite-fermion holes. We predict that these bound states can be observed through a conductance resonance in experiments involving a tunneling of an external electron into the fractional quantum Hall liquid. A comment is made on the origin of the breakdown of the Fermi liquid paradigm in the fractional hall liquid.
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Jainendra K. Jain, Michael R. Peterson. 2004-12-13. Reconstructing the electron in a fractionalized quantum fluid. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.94.186808
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