Collective modes of CP(3) Skyrmion crystals in quantum Hall ferromagnets

Abstract

The two-dimensional electron gas in a bilayer quantum Hall system can sustain an interlayer coherence at filling factor nu=1 even in the absence of tunneling between the layers. This system has low-energy charged excitations which may carry textures in real spin or pseudospin. Away from filling factor nu =1 a finite density of these is present in the ground state of the 2DEG and forms a crystal. Depending on the relative size of the various energy scales, such as tunneling (Delta_SAS), Zeeman coupling (Delta_Z) or electrical bias (Delta_b), these textured crystal states can involve spin, pseudospin, or both intertwined. In this article, we present a comprehensive numerical study of the collective excitations of these textured crystals using the GRPA. For the pure spin case, at finite Zeeman coupling the state is a Skyrmion crystal with a gapless phonon mode, and a separate Goldstone mode that arises from a broken U(1) symmetry. At zero Zeeman coupling, we demonstrate that the constituent Skyrmions break up, and the resulting state is a meron crystal with 4 gapless modes. In contrast, a pure pseudospin Skyrme crystal at finite tunneling has only the phonon mode. For Delta_SAS=0, the state evolves into a meron crystal and supports an extra gapless U(1) mode in addition to the phonon. For a CP(3) Skyrmion crystal, we find a U(1) gapless mode in the presence of the symmetry-breaking fields. In addition, a second mode with a very small gap is present in the spectrum.

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