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Ying-Hai Wu1, Hong-Hao Tu2, Meng Cheng3
1School of Physics and Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
Abstract:
We study quantum phase transitions in Bose-Fermi mixtures driven by interspecies interaction in the quantum Hall regime. In the absence of such an interaction, the bosons and fermions form their respective fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at certain filling factors. A symmetry-protected topological (SPT) state is identified as the ground state for strong interspecies interaction. The phase transitions between them are proposed to be described by Chern-Simons-Higgs field theories. For a simple microscopic Hamiltonian, we present numerical evidence for the existence of the SPT state and a continuous transition to the FQH state. It is also found that the entanglement entropy between the bosons and fermions exhibits scaling behavior in the vicinity of this transition.
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