Screening properties of quasielectrons in Laughlin states

ORAL

Abstract


I review recent work on how to construct a matrix product state representation of quasielectron excitations of Laughlin QH wave functions. These, which are obtained, either by using composite fermions, or conformal field theory, have a known defect - the the positions of the quasielectrons depend on the presence of other quasiparticles even when these are far removed. This poses a serious problem since the braiding phases of the quasiparticles are not correct which signifies that the states do not have correct topological properties. This failure is analyzed in detail and is shown to arise because of an incomplete screening which causes the plasma analogy. We discuss various ways to overcome the problems by adding screening operators.

Presenters

  • Hans Hansson

    Stockholm Univ

Authors

  • Hans Hansson

    Stockholm Univ

  • Eddy Ardonne

    Stockholm Univ

  • Jonas Kjäll

    Stockholm Univ

  • Maria Hermanns

    Göteborg University

  • Vatsal Dwivedi

    Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, University of Cologne