Hall crystal states at nu = 2 and moderate landau level mixing
The nu = 2 quantum Hall state at low Zeeman coupling is well known to be a translationally invariant singlet if Landau level mixing is small. At zero Zeeman interaction, as Landau level mixing increases, the translationally invariant state becomes unstable to an inhomogeneous state. This is the first realistic example of a full Hall crystal, which shows the coexistence of quantum Hall order and density wave order. The full Hall crystal differs from the more familiar Wigner crystal by a topological property, which results in it having only linearly dispersing collective modes at small q, and no q(3/2) magnetophonon. I present calculations of the topological number and the collective modes.
Murthy
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA.