Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2008-03-25
Science 320, 899 (2008).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
supporting material: http://marcuslab.harvard.edu/Radu_SOMs.pdf
Scientific paper
Theory predicts that quasiparticle tunneling between the counter-propagating edges in a fractional quantum Hall state can be used to measure the effective quasiparticle charge e* and dimensionless interaction parameter g, and thereby characterize the many-body wavefunction describing the state. We report measurements of quasiparticle tunneling in a high mobility GaAs two dimensional electron system in the fractional quantum Hall state at nu=5/2 using a gate-defined constriction to bring the edges close together. We find the dc-bias peaks in the tunneling conductance at different temperatures collapse onto a single curve when scaled, in agreement with weak tunneling theory. Various models for the \nu=5/2 state predict different values for g. Among these models, the non-abelian states with e*=1/4 and g=1/2 are most consistent with the data.
Kastner Marc A.
Marcus Charles M.
Miller James B.
Pfeiffer Loren N.
Radu Iuliana P.
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