Meron ground states of quantum Hall droplets

Details Meron ground states of quantum Hall droplets Meron ground states of quantum Hall droplets

2009-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2030v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

6 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

We argue that topological meron excitations, which are in a strong coupling phase (bound in pairs) in infinite quantum Hall ferromagnets, become deconfined in finite size quantum Hall systems. Although effectively for larger systems meron energy grows with the size of the system, when gyromagnetic ratio is small meron becomes the lowest lying state of a quantum Hall droplet. This comes as a consequence of the many-body correlations built in the meron construction that minimize the interaction energy. We demonstrate this by using mean field ansatzes for meron wave function. The ansatzes will enable us to consider much larger system sizes than in the previous work [A. Petkovic and M.V. Milovanovic, PRL 98, 066808 (2007)], where fractionalization into merons was introduced.

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