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Understanding the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect without the Pfaffian wave function
1Department of Physics, 104 Davey Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
Abstract:
It is demonstrated that an understanding of the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect can be achieved within the composite fermion theory without appealing to the Pfaffian wave function. The residual interaction between composite fermions plays a crucial role in establishing incompressibility at this filling factor. This approach has the advantage of being amenable to systematic perturbative improvements, and produces ground as well as excited states. It, however, does not relate to non-Abelian statistics in any obvious manner.
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