Anisotropy-driven transition from the Moore-Read state to quantum Hall stripes

We investigate the nature of the quantum Hall liquid in a half-filled second Landau level (n=1) as a function of band mass anisotropy using numerical exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group methods. We find increasing the mass anisotropy induces a quantum phase transition from...

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Main Authors: Sheng, D. N. (Author), Zhu, Zheng (Contributor), Sodemann Villadiego, Inti A. (Contributor), Fu, Liang (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2017-06-12T15:07:36Z.
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