Competition between crystal and fractional quantum Hall liquid in the presence of LL mixing

ORAL

Abstract

In low-density hole-type GaAs quantum wells, an insulating phase is observed for ν < 1/3 and also between ν = 1/3 and ν = 2/5. In a fixed phase diffusion Monte Carlo calculation, we find re-entrant phase transitions for a range of LL mixing, where the system goes, with increasing magnetic field, from 2/5 FQHE liquid → crystal → 1/3 FQHE liquid → crystal. Our results are in excellent agreement with experiments. It is predicted that for yet higher LL mixing, the crystal phase altogether suppresses the 1/3 and 2/5 FQHE. We also consider the filling factors ν = 1/5 and ν = 2/9 and predict that with increasing LL mixing a transition occurs into a crystal of composite fermions carrying two vortices.

*This work was supported in part by US Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0005042

Presenters

  • Jianyun Zhao

    • Pennsylvania State Univ

Authors

  • Jianyun Zhao

    • Pennsylvania State Univ
  • Yuhe Zhang

    • Pennsylvania State Univ
  • Jainendra Jain

    • Physics, Pennsylvania State Univ
    • Pennsylvania State Univ
    • The Pennsylvania State University