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  • Title: Topological Exciton Fermi Surfaces in Two-Component Fractional Quantized Hall Insulators.
    Author: Barkeshli M, Nayak C, Papić Z, Young A, Zaletel M.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2018 Jul 13; 121(2):026603. PubMed ID: 30085706.
    Abstract:
    A wide variety of two-dimensional electron systems allow for independent control of the total and relative charge density of two-component fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. In particular, a recent experiment on bilayer graphene (BLG) observed a continuous transition between a compressible and incompressible phase at total filling ν_{T}=1/2 as charge is transferred between the layers, with the remarkable property that the incompressible phase has a finite interlayer polarizability. We argue that this occurs because the topological order of ν_{T}=1/2 systems supports a novel type of interlayer exciton that carries Fermi statistics. If the fermionic excitons are lower in energy than the conventional bosonic excitons (i.e., electron-hole pairs), they can form an emergent neutral Fermi surface, providing a possible explanation of an incompressible yet polarizable state at ν_{T}=1/2. We perform exact diagonalization studies that demonstrate that fermionic excitons are indeed lower in energy than bosonic excitons. This suggests that a "topological exciton metal" hidden inside a FQH insulator may have been realized experimentally in BLG. We discuss several detection schemes by which the topological exciton metal can be experimentally probed.
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