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M. V. Milovanovic

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arXiv2021

PH Pfaffian intra and inter correlations in the quantum Hall bilayer

PH Pfaffian topological phase may exist in a uniform system due to strong Landau level (LL) mixing according to theoretical predictions based on the Son - Dirac composite fermion theory. Numerical investigations in the presence of large LL mixing are limited due to numerical complexities, when taking into account at least one more LL. Because of this, we apply the same field theoretical approach to the quantum Hall bilayer at total filling factor equal to one, for which many numerical studies exist. The most recent work in the torus geometry predicts an intermediate phase (for intermediate distances between layers) with an even-odd effect. According to our approach, the intermediate phase represents a mixed negative-flux $p$-wave pairing i.e. coexisting intra (PH Pfaffian in each layer) and inter (a la PH Pfaffian) pairing correlations. This again underlines a necessity for strong entanglement with additional degrees of freedom, i.e. at least one more (additional) LL in the search for a stable PH Pfaffian phase in a single layer. Based on the analogy with the bilayer physics we propose a PH Pfaffian wave function that resides in two LLs.

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arXiv2021

Pfaffian paired states for half-integer fractional quantum Hall effect

In this review the physics of Pfaffian paired states, in the context of fractional quantum Hall effect, is discussed using field-theoretical approaches. The Pfaffian states are prime examples of topological ($p$-wave) Cooper pairing and are characterized by non-Abelian statistics of their quasiparticles. Here we focus on conditions for their realization and competition among them at half-integer filling factors. Using the Dirac composite fermion description, in the presence of a mass term, we study the influence of Landau level mixing in selecting a particular Pfaffian state. While Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian are selected when Landau level mixing is not strong, and can be taken into account perturbatively, the PH Pfaffian state requires non-perturbative inclusion of at least two Landau levels. Our findings, for small Landau level mixing, are in accordance with numerical investigations in the literature, and call for a non-perturbative approach in the search for PH Pfaffian correlations. We demonstrated that a method based on the Chern-Simons field-theoretical approach can be used to generate characteristic interaction pseudo-potentials for Pfaffian paired states.

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arXiv2018

Paired states at 5/2: PH Pfaffian and particle-hole symmetry breaking

We study Cooper pairing in the Dirac composite fermion (CF) system. The presence of the mass term in the Dirac CF description (which may simulate Landau level mixing) i.e. breaking of particle-hole (PH) symmetry in this system, is a necessary condition for the existence of a PH Pfaffian-like topological state. In the scope of RPA approximation and hydrodynamic approach, we find some signatures of pairing at finite frequencies. Motivated by this insight, we extend our analysis to the case of a different but still Dirac quasi-particle (CF) representation, appropriate in the presence of a mass term, and discuss the likelihood of PH Pfaffian pairing and Pfaffian pairing in general. On the basis of gauge field effects, we find for small Dirac mass anti-Pfaffian or Pfaffian instability depending on the sign of mass, while for large mass (Landau level mixing), irrespective of its sign, PH Pfaffian-like instability.

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arXiv2015

Meron deconfinement in the quantum Hall bilayer at intermediate distances

Quantum Hall bilayer phase diagram with respect to interlayer distance bears a remarkable similarity with phase diagrams of strongly correlated systems as a function of doping, with magnetic ordering on the one end and Fermi-liquid-like behaviour on the other. Moreover, it has been suggested [PRL 101, 176803 (2008)] that a BCS correlated state of composite fermions with p-wave pairing may exist in the intermediate region. In the same region, an exact diagonalization study in the torus geometry [PRB 69, 045319 (2004)] pointed out the existence of state(s) with pseudospin spiraling order. Here we reconcile these two descriptions of the intermediate state by considering the underlying bosonic representation of the composite fermion paired state in the long distance limit, and by performing extensive exact diagonalizations on the torus. We argue that the spiraling states belong to the manifold of degenerate ground state(s), and are a consequence of Bose condensation of the quasiparticles (with critical algebraic correlations) at non-zero momenta in the two pseudospin states. The spiraling states, generated in this way as spin-textures, can be identified with meron-antimeron constructions. Thus, merons -- the fractionally charged vortex excitations of the XY magnetically ordered state -- constitute some of the topological sectors. It follows that merons are deconfined in the intermediate state, and allow for a smooth transition between the magnetically ordered and Fermi-liquid-like phases, in which they are bound in pairs.

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arXiv2013

On the geometrical description of fractional Chern insulators based on static structure factor calculations

We study the static structure factor of the fractional Chern insulator Laughlin-like state and provide analytical forms for this quantity in the long-distance limit. In the course of this we identify averaged over Brillouin zone Fubini Study metric as the relevant metric in the long-distance limit. We discuss under which conditions the static structure factor will assume the usual behavior of Laughlin-like fractional quantum Hall system i.e. the scenario of Girvin, MacDonald, and Platzman [Phys. Rev. B 33, 2481 (1986)]. We study the influence of the departure of the averaged over Brillouin zone Fubini Study metric from its fractional quantum Hall value which appears in the long-distance analysis as an effective change of the filling factor. According to our exact diagonalization results on the Haldane model and analytical considerations we find persistence of fractional Chern insulator state even in this region of the parameter space.

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arXiv2012

d-wave superconductivity on the honeycomb bilayer

We introduce a microscopic model on the honeycomb bilayer, which in the small-momentum limit captures the usual (quadratic dispersion in kinetic term) description of bilayer graphene. In the limit of strong interlayer hopping it reduces to an effective honeycomb monolayer model with also third neighbor hopping. We study interaction effects in this effective model focusing on possible superconducting instabilities. We find d_{x^2-y^2} superconductivity in the strong coupling limit of an effective tJ-model-like description that gradually transforms into d + id time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity at weak couplings. In this limit the small momentum order parameter expansion is (k_x + i k_y)^2 [or (k_x - ik_y)^2] in both valleys of the effective low-energy description. The relevance of our model and investigation for the physics of bilayer graphene is also discussed.

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arXiv2012

Topological d-wave pairing structures in Jain states

We discuss d-wave topological (broken time reversal symmetry) pairing structures in unpolarized and polarized Jain states. We demonstrate pairing in the Jain spin singlet state by rewriting it in an explicit pairing form, in which we can recognize d-wave weak pairing of underlying quasiparticles - neutral fermions. We find and describe the root configuration of the Jain spin singlet state and its connection with neutral excitations of the Haldane-Rezayi state, and study the transition between these states via exact diagonalization. We find high overlaps with the Jain spin singlet state upon a departure from the hollow core model for which the Haldane-Rezayi state is the exact ground state. Due to a proven algebraic identity we were able to extend the analysis of topological d-wave pairing structures to polarized Jain states and integer quantum Hall states, and discuss its consequences.

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arXiv2010

Tunneling-driven breakdown of the 331 state and the emergent Pfaffian and composite Fermi liquid phases

We examine the possibility of creating the Moore-Read Pfaffian in the lowest Landau level when the multicomponent Halperin 331 state (believed to describe quantum Hall bilayers and wide quantum wells at the filling factor $ν=1/2$) is destroyed by the increase of tunneling. Using exact diagonalization of the bilayer Hamiltonian with short-range and long-range (Coulomb) interactions in spherical and periodic rectangular geometries, we establish that tunneling is a perturbation that drives the 331 state into a compressible composite Fermi liquid, with the possibility for an intermediate critical state that possesses some properties of the Moore-Read Pfaffian. These results are interpreted in the two-component BCS model for Cauchy pairing with a tunneling constraint. We comment on the conditions to be imposed on a system with fluctuating density in order to achieve the stable Pfaffian phase.

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arXiv2009

Fractional quantum Hall state at ν=1/4 in a wide quantum well

We investigate, with the help of Monte-Carlo and exact-diagonalization calculations in the spherical geometry, several compressible and incompressible candidate wave functions for the recently observed quantum Hall state at the filling factor $ν=1/4$ in a wide quantum well. The quantum well is modeled as a two-component system by retaining its two lowest subbands. We make a direct connection with the phenomenological effective-bilayer model, which is commonly used in the description of a wide quantum well, and we compare our findings with the established results at $ν=1/2$ in the lowest Landau level. At $ν=1/4$, the overlap calculations for the Halperin (5,5,3) and (7,7,1) states, the generalized Haldane-Rezayi state and the Moore-Read Pfaffian, suggest that the incompressible state is likely to be realized in the interplay between the Halperin (5,5,3) state and the Moore-Read Pfaffian. Our numerics shows the latter to be very susceptible to changes in the interaction coefficients, thus indicating that the observed state is of multicomponent nature.

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arXiv2006

Fractionalization into merons in quantum dots

We study by exact diagonalization, in the lowest Landau level approximation, the Coulomb interaction problem of N = 4 and N = 6 quantum dot in the limit of zero Zeeman coupling. We find that meron excitations constitute the lowest lying states of the quantum dots. This is based on a mapping between the excitations of the dot and states of the Haldane-Shastry spin chain.

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arXiv2006

Wavefunctional approach to the bilayer ν=1 system and a possibility for a double non-chiral pseudospin liquid

We systematically discuss candidate wave functions for the ground state of the bilayer ν= 1 as the distance between the layers is varied. Those that describe increased intralayer correlations at finite distance show a departure from the superflid description for smaller distances. They may support finite energy meron excitations and a dissipative collective mode in the place of the Goldstone mode of the ordered phase i.e. describe a vortex metal phase, or imply even an incompressible, pseudospin liquid, behavior. Therefore they describe possible outcomes of quantum disordering at finite distance between the layers. The vortex metal phase may show up in experiments in the presence of disorder at lower temperatures and explain the observed "imperfect superfluidity", and the pseudospin liquid phase may be the cause of the thermally activated (gapped) behavior of the longitudinal and Hall resistances at higher temperatures in counterflow experiments.

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arXiv2004

Status of the Fermi surface in mixed composite boson - composite fermion quantum Hall states

We argue that the naively expected singularities of the Fermi surface, in the mixed composite boson - composite fermion states proposed [S.H. Simon et al., PRL 91, 046803(2003)] for the evolution of ν= 1 bilayer quantum Hall system with distance, are obliterated. Our conclusion is based on a careful analysis of the momentum distribution in ν= 1/2 single-layer composite-fermion state. We point out to a possibility of the phenomenon hitherto unknown outside Kondo lattice systems when, in a translationally invariant system, Fermi-liquid-like portion of electrons enlarges its volume.

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arXiv1997

The edge theory of ferromagnetic quantum Hall states

We propose an effective low-energy theory for ferromagnetic Hall states. It describes the charge degrees of freedom, on the edge, by a (1 + 1) dimensional chiral boson theory, and the spin degrees of freedom by the (2 + 1)dimensional quantum ferromagnet theory in the spin-wave approximation. The usual chiral boson theory for spinless electrons is modified to include the charge degrees of freedom with spin. Our total, bulk plus edge, effective action is gauge invariant and we find a generalized "chiral anomaly" in this case. We describe two, charged and neutral, sets of edge spin-wave solutions. The spreading of these waves is much larger than the one for the charge (edge) waves and they have linear dispersion relations.

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