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Numerical calculation of the neutral fermion gap at the ν=5/2 fractional quantum Hall state
Parsa Bonderson1, Adrian E Feiguin, Chetan Nayak
1Microsoft Research, Station Q, Elings Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106, USA.
Abstract:
We present the first numerical computation of the neutral fermion gap, Δ(F), in the ν=5/2 quantum Hall state, which is analogous to the energy gap for a Bogoliubov-de Gennes quasiparticle in a superconductor. We find Δ(F)≈0.027e(2)/εℓ(0), comparable to the charge gap. We also deduce an effective Fermi velocity v(F) for neutral fermions from the low-energy spectra for odd numbers of electrons, and thereby obtain a correlation length ξ(F)=v(F)/Δ(F)≈1.3ℓ(0). We comment on implications for experiments, topological quantum information processing, and electronic mechanisms of superconductivity.
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