Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2001-07-12
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
12 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.64.245115
Based on recent experimental evidence for a spin polarized ground state in the insulating phase of the two-dimensional electron system, we propose that ferromagnetic spin fluctuations lead to an attractive interaction in the triplet channel and cause p-wave pairing in the conducting phase. We use the Landau Fermi liquid phenomenology to explain how the enhanced spin susceptibility near the critical density yields an attractive potential, in a similar mechanism to superfluidity in $^3$He. As the density is decreased, the p-wave order parameter undergoes a transition from a unitary to a nonunitary state, in which it coexists with ferromagnetism for a range of densities. As the density is further reduced, the pairing amplitude vanishes and the system is described by a ferromagnetic insulator. Thus, we find two quantum critical points as a function of density associated with the polarization of the paired state and ferromagnetism. We explain the magnetotransport measurements in parallel and perpendicular magnetic fields and propose a shot noise experiment to measure the pair charge.
Castro Neto Antonio H.
Chamon Claudio
Mucciolo Eduardo R.
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