Pairing Effects in the Edge of Paired Quantum Hall States

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1998-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9803337v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 81 (1998) 1078

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Revtex, 5 pages,3 figures. v2:typos corrected, references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1078

We study pairing effects in the edge states of paired fractional quantum Hall states by using persistent edge currents as a probe. We give the grand partition functions for edge excitations of paired states (Pfaffian, Haldane-Rezayi, 331) coupling to an Aharanov-Bohm flux and derive the exact formulas of the persistent edge current. We show that the currents are flux periodic with the unit flux $\phi_0=hc/e$. At low temperatures, they exhibit anomalous oscillations in their flux dependence. The shapes of the functions depend on the bulk topological order. They converge to the sawtooth function with period $\phi_0/2$ at zero temperature, which indicates pair condensation. This phenomenon provides an interesting bridge between superconductivity in 2+1 dimensions and superconductivity in 1+1 dimensions. We propose experiments of measuring the persistent current at even denominator plateau in single or double layer systems to test our predictions.

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