Incompressible paired hall state, stripe order, and the composite fermion liquid phase in half-filled landau levels

We consider the two lowest Landau levels at half filling. In the higher Landau level (nu = 5/2), we find a first-order phase transition separating a compressible striped phase from a paired quantum Hall state, which is identified as the Moore-Read state. The critical point is very near the Coulomb p...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2000-05, Vol.84 (20), p.4685-4688
Main Authors: Rezayi, EH, Haldane, FD
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Language:English
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Summary:We consider the two lowest Landau levels at half filling. In the higher Landau level (nu = 5/2), we find a first-order phase transition separating a compressible striped phase from a paired quantum Hall state, which is identified as the Moore-Read state. The critical point is very near the Coulomb potential and the transition can be driven by increasing the width of the electron layer. We find a much weaker transition (either second-order or a crossover) from pairing to the composite fermion Fermi-liquid behavior. A very similar picture is obtained for the lowest Landau level, but the transition point is not near the Coulomb potential.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4685