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  • Title: Quantum phase transitions and the ν=5/2 fractional Hall state in wide quantum wells.
    Author: Papić Z, Haldane FD, Rezayi EH.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2012 Dec 28; 109(26):266806. PubMed ID: 23368602.
    Abstract:
    We study the nature of the ν=5/2 quantum Hall state in wide quantum wells under the mixing of electronic subbands and Landau levels. A general method is introduced to analyze the Moore-Read pfaffian state and its particle-hole conjugate, the anti-pfaffian state, under periodic boundary conditions in a "quartered" Brillouin zone scheme containing both even and odd numbers of electrons. By examining the rotational quantum numbers on the torus, we show spontaneous breaking of the particle-hole symmetry can be observed in finite-size systems. In the presence of electronic-subband and Landau-level mixing, the particle-hole symmetry is broken in such a way that the anti-pfaffian state is unambiguously favored, and becomes more robust in the vicinity of a transition to the compressible phase, in agreement with recent experiments.
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