Very high-energy collective states of partons in fractional quantum Hall liquids

Abstract

The low energy physics of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states -- a paradigm of strongly correlated topological phases of matter -- to a large extent is captured by weakly interacting quasiparticles known as composite fermions (CFs). In this paper, based on numerical simulations and effective field theory, we argue that some \emph{high energy} states in the FQH spectra necessitate a different description based on \emph{parton} quasiparticles. We show that Jain states at filling factor $\nu =n/(2pn\pm 1)$ with integers $n,p\ge 2$, support two kinds of collective modes: in addition to the well-known Girvin-MacDonald-Platzman (GMP) mode, they host a high energy collective mode, which is interpreted as the GMP mode of partons. We elucidate observable signatures of the parton mode in the dynamics following a geometric quench. We construct a microscopic wave function for the parton mode, and demonstrate agreement between its variational energy and exact diagonalization. Using the parton construction, we derive a field theory of the Jain states and show that the previously proposed effective theories follow from our approach. Our results point to partons being "real" quasiparticles which, in a way reminiscent of quarks, only become observable at sufficiently high energies.

arXiv comment16 pages, 13 figures, published version

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