Spin excitation spectra of integral and fractional quantum Hall systems

Abstract

Results are presented of detailed numerical calculations for the spin excitation spectra of a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a quantum well of finite width w, at magnetic fields corresponding to the fractional and integral fillings of the lowest and of excited Landau levels. Spin waves and skyrmions are identified, and their mutual interactions are studied at filling factors nu=1/3, 1, 3, and 5. The smallest skyrmions at nu=1/3 are equivalent to composite fermion charged excitons X_CF^(+/-). Bose condensates of nearly noninteracting spin waves and Laughlin correlations between finite-size skyrmions are found at nu=1 and 1/3 and, for w larger than about two magnetic lengths, also at nu=3 and 5. A general criterion for the occurrence of skyrmions at odd integral fillings and at Laughlin fractional fillings of the lowest Landau level is given in terms of the interaction pseudopotentials. This explains the dependence of skyrmion states on w observed in excited Landau levels.

12 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

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• Energy, interaction, and photoluminescence of spin-reversed quasielectrons in fractional quantum Hall systems
• Spin instabilities and quantum phase transitions in integral and fractional quantum Hall states
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