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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B Année : 2018

Hamiltonian theory for quantum Hall systems in a tilted magnetic field: Composite-fermion geometry and robustness of activation gaps

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We use the Hamiltonian theory developed by Shankar and Murthy to study a quantum Hall system in a tilted magnetic field. With a finite width of the system in the z direction, the parallel component of the magnetic field introduces anisotropy into the effective two-dimensional interactions. The effects of such anisotropy can be effectively captured by the recently proposed generalized pseudopotentials. We find that the off-diagonal components of the pseudopotentials lead to mixing of composite fermions Landau levels, which is a perturbation to the picture of p filled Landau levels in composite-fermion theory. By changing the internal geometry of the composite fermions, such a perturbation can be minimized and one can find the corresponding activation gaps for different tilting angles, and we calculate the associated optimal metric. Our results show that the activation gap is remarkably robust against the in-plane magnetic field in the lowest and first Landau levels.

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hal-01959707 , version 1 (18-12-2018)

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Kang Yang, Mark Oliver Goerbig, Benoît Douçot. Hamiltonian theory for quantum Hall systems in a tilted magnetic field: Composite-fermion geometry and robustness of activation gaps. Physical Review B, 2018, 98 (20), pp.205150. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.98.205150⟩. ⟨hal-01959707⟩
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