arXiv · cond-mat/9903187
Hamiltonian Description of Composite Fermions: Magnetoexciton Dispersions
Abstract
A microscopic Hamiltonian theory of the FQHE, developed by Shankar and myself based on the fermionic Chern-Simons approach, has recently been quite successful in calculating gaps in Fractional Quantum Hall states, and in predicting approximate scaling relations between the gaps of different fractions. I now apply this formalism towards computing magnetoexciton dispersions (including spin-flip dispersions) in the $ν=1/3$, 2/5, and 3/7 gapped fractions, and find approximate agreement with numerical results. I also analyse the evolution of these dispersions with increasing sample thickness, modelled by a potential soft at high momenta. New results are obtained for instabilities as a function of thickness for 2/5 and 3/7, and it is shown that the spin-polarized 2/5 state, in contrast to the spin-polarized 1/3 state, cannot be described as a simple quantum ferromagnet.
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Ganpathy Murthy. 1999-03-11. Hamiltonian Description of Composite Fermions: Magnetoexciton Dispersions. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.60.13702
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