Nonconventional Odd-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Second Landau Level
Abstract
We report the observation of a new fractional quantum Hall state in the second Landau level of a two-dimensional electron gas at the Landau level filling factor ν=2+6/13. We find that the model of noninteracting composite fermions can explain the magnitude of gaps of the prominent 2+1/3 and 2+2/3 states. The same model fails, however, to account for the gaps of the 2+2/5 and the newly observed 2+6/13 states suggesting that these two states are of exotic origin.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.246808
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1009.0237
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvL.105x6808K
- Keywords:
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- 73.43.-f;
- 73.21.Fg;
- Quantum Hall effects;
- Quantum wells;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 246808 (2010)