Abstract

We theoretically investigate the nature of the state at the quarter filled lowest Landau level and predict that, as the quantum well width is increased, a transition occurs from the composite fermion Fermi sea into a novel non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall state that is topologically equivalent to f-wave pairing of composite fermions. This state is topologically distinct from the familiar p-wave paired Pfaffian state. We compare our calculated phase diagram with experiments and make predictions for many observable quantities.

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2019
Volume
123
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.016802
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Contributors