Exploring the nature of the emergent gauge field in composite-fermion metals: A large-scale microscopic study

Abstract

Field theories of the composite-fermion (CF) metal model it as a Fermi sea of composite fermions coupled to an emergent gauge field. Within a random phase approximation, these theories predict that the Landau damping of the gauge field resulting from its coupling to the low-energy, long-wavelength CF particle-hole excitations modifies the electrons' density-density correlation function related to the static structure factor $S(q)$ at wave vector $q$. This produces a non-analytic correction $\propto q^3\ln q$ to $S(q)$ (with the magnetic length ${\ell }_B=1$). Thanks to the recently developed quaternion formulation for Jain-Kamilla projection of CF wave functions, the evaluation of $S(q)$ from the accurate microscopic theory of composite fermions has now become possible for systems containing as many as $N=900$ CFs, which enables a reliable determination of the small-$q$ behavior of $S(q)$. We study CF metals corresponding to electrons at Landau level filling factors $\nu =1/2$ and $1/4$, and for completeness, also of bosons at $\nu =1$ and $1/3$. In the $q\to 0$ limit, our microscopic calculation reveals a $q^3$ term in $S(q)$ of the CF metals rather than $q^3\ln q$. This behavior is well-predicted by a model of a non-interacting Fermi sea of dipolar CFs, which also obtains its coefficient accurately.

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