Bilayer quantum Hall phase transitions and the orbifold non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall states

We study continuous quantum phase transitions that can occur in bilayer fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems as the interlayer tunneling and interlayer repulsion are tuned. We introduce a slave-particle gauge theory description of a series of continuous transitions from the (ppq) Abelian bilayer st...

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Main Authors: Barkeshli, Maissam (Contributor), Wen, Xiao-Gang (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society (APS), 2012-02-17T17:45:08Z.
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