Strong correlation to weak correlation phase transition in bilayer quantum Hall systems.
At small layer separations, the ground state of a nu = 1 bilayer quantum Hall system exhibits spontaneous interlayer phase coherence. The evolution of this state with increasing layer separation d has been a matter of controversy. We report on small system exact diagonalization calculations which suggest that a single-phase transition, likely of first order, separates incompressible states with strong interlayer correlations from compressible states with weak interlayer correlations. We find a dependence of the phase boundary on d and interlayer tunneling amplitude that is in very good agreement with recent experiments.
Schliemann
J
J
Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7105, USA.
Girvin
S M
SM
MacDonald
A H
AH