scholarly journals WANNIER FUNCTIONS AND FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECT

1995 ◽  
Vol 09 (25) ◽  
pp. 3333-3344 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. FERRARI
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Hall Effect ◽  
Quantum Hall Effect ◽  
Quantum Hall ◽  
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect ◽  
Fractional Quantum ◽  
Fractional Quantum Hall ◽  
Wannier Functions ◽  
Hartree Fock ◽  
Fock State

We introduce and study the Wannier functions for an electron moving in a plane under the influence of a perpendicular uniform and constant magnetic field. The relevance for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect is discussed; in particular, it shown that an interesting Hartree–Fock state can be constructed in terms of Wannier functions.

FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECT: CONSTRUCTION OF THE HARTREE–FOCK STATE BY USING TRANSLATIONAL COVARIANCE

1994 ◽  
Vol 08 (05) ◽  
pp. 529-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. FERRARI
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Hall Effect ◽  
Landau Level ◽  
Quantum Hall Effect ◽  
Filling Factor ◽  
Quantum Hall ◽  
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect ◽  
Fractional Quantum ◽  
Fractional Quantum Hall ◽  
Hartree Fock

The formalism introduced in a previous paper is used for discussing the Coulomb interaction of many electrons moving in two space-dimensions in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The matrix element of the Coulomb interaction is evaluated in the new basis, whose states are invariant under discrete translations (up to a gauge transformation). This paper is devoted to the case of low filling factor, thus we limit ourselves to the lowest Landau level and to spins all oriented along the magnetic field. For the case of filling factor νf = 1/u we give an Ansatz on the state of many electrons which provides a good approximated solution of the Hartree–Fock equation. For general filling factor νf = u′/u a trial state is given which converges very rapidly to a solution of the self-consistent equation. We generalize the Hartree–Fock equation by considering some correlation: all quantum states are allowed for the u′ electrons with the same translation quantum numbers. Numerical results are given for the mean energy and the energy bands, for some values of the filling factor (νf = 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 3/4, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5). Our results agree numerically with the Charge Density Wave approach. The boundary conditions are shown to be very important: only large systems (degeneracy of Landau level over 200) are not affected by the boundaries. Therefore results obtained on small scale systems are somewhat unreliable. The relevance of the results for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect is briefly discussed.

CORRELATION AND LOCALIZATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONS IN A STRONG MAGNETIC FIELD

1990 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 301-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. TSUI
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Hall Effect ◽  
Quantum Hall Effect ◽  
Quantum Hall ◽  
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Quantum Liquid ◽  
Fractional Quantum ◽  
Fractional Quantum Hall ◽  
Integral Quantum

This paper gives a brief review of some recent experiments on the localization-delocalization transition in the integral quantum Hall effect and the new quantum liquid ground states giving rise to the fractional quantum Hall effect.

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