Berry phases for composite fermions: effective magnetic field and fractional statistics

Details Berry phases for composite fermions: effective magnetic field and fractional statistics Berry phases for composite fermions: effective magnetic field and fractional statistics

2004-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407137v1

Phys. Rev. B 70, 125316 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

14 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.125316

The quantum Hall superfluid is presently the only viable candidate for a realization of quasiparticles with fractional Berry phase statistics. For a simple vortex excitation, relevant for a subset of fractional Hall states considered by Laughlin, non-trivial Berry phase statistics were demonstrated many years ago by Arovas, Schrieffer, and Wilczek. The quasiparticles are in general more complicated, described accurately in terms of excited composite fermions. We use the method developed by Kjonsberg, Myrheim and Leinaas to compute the Berry phase for a single composite-fermion quasiparticle, and find that it agrees with the effective magnetic field concept for composite fermions. We then evaluate the "fractional statistics", related to the change in the Berry phase for a closed loop caused by the insertion of another composite-fermion quasiparticle in the interior. Our results support the general validity of fractional statistics in the quantum Hall superfluid, while also giving a quantitative account of corrections to it when the quasiparticle wave functions overlap. Many caveats, both practical and conceptual, are mentioned that will be relevant to an experimental measurement of the fractional statistics. A short report on some parts of this article has appeared previously.

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