Nature of Quasielectrons and the Continuum of Neutral Bulk Excitations in Laughlin Quantum Hall Fluids

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Abstract

We construct model wavefunctions for a family of single-quasielectron states supported by the $\nu=1/3$ fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluid. The charge $e^*$ = $e/3$ quasielectron state is identified as a composite of a charge-$2e^*$ quasiparticle and a $-e^*$ quasihole, orbiting around their common center of charge with relative angular momentum $n\hbar > 0$, and corresponds precisely to the ``composite fermion'' construction based on a filled $n=0$ Landau level plus an extra particle in level $n > 0$. An effective three-body model (one $2e^*$ quasiparticle and two $-e^*$ quasiholes) is introduced to capture the essential physics of the neutral bulk excitations. We also explore different ways of representing many-body wavefunctions in fractional quantum hall fluids, including the holomorphic wavefunctions, Jack polynomial formalisms and the diagrammatic representations. (Bo Yang and F.D.M. Haldane, PRL 112, 206804).

Authors

  • Bo Yang

    Institute of High Performance Computing

  • F.D.M. Haldane

    Princeton University