Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
1996-12-23
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.
Brey Luis
Cote Raphael
Fertig Herbert A.
Karlhede Anders
MacDonald Allan. H.
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