Hartree-Fock Theory of Skyrmions in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets

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1996-12-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9612210v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

26 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.55.10671

We report on a study of the charged-skyrmion or spin-texture excitations which occur in quantum Hall ferromagnets near odd Landau level filling factors. Particle-hole symmetry is used to relate the spin-quantum numbers of charged particle and hole excitations and neutral particle-hole pair excitations. Hartree-Fock theory is used to provide quantitative estimates of the energies of these excitations and their dependence on Zeeman coupling strength, Landau level quantum numbers, and the thicknesses of the two-dimensional electron layers. For the case of $\nu$ near three we suggest the possibility of first order phase transitions with increasing Zeeman coupling strength from a many skyrmion state to one with many maximally spin-polarized quasiparticles.

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