The half-filled Landau level: the case for Dirac composite fermions

Abstract

One of the most spectacular experimental findings in the fractional quantum Hall effect is evidence for an emergent Fermi surface when the electron density is nearly half the density of magnetic flux quanta ($\nu =1/2$). The seminal work of Halperin, Lee, and Read (HLR) first predicted that at $\nu =1/2$ composite fermions--bound states of an electron and a pair of vortices--experience zero net magnetic field and can form a "composite Fermi liquid" with an emergent Fermi surface. In this paper we use infinite cylinder DMRG to provide compelling numerical evidence for the existence of a Fermi sea of composite fermions for realistic interactions between electrons at $\nu =1/2$. Moreover, we show that the state is particle-hole symmetric, in contrast to the construction of HLR. Instead, our findings are consistent if the composite fermions are massless Dirac particles, at finite density, similar to the surface state of a 3D topological insulator. Exploiting this analogy we devise a numerical test and successfully observe the suppression of $2k_F$ backscattering characteristic of Dirac particles.

6 pages of main text, 12 pretty figures, and copious amounts of appendices

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