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双电子层中激子一级量子相变的证据

Evidence of a first-order quantum phase transition of excitons in electron double layers

Biswajit Karmakar, Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West

摘要:

多粒子系统的复杂性是通过质的分化过程而产生的。这些都是描述的概念,如新兴国家与特定的对称性,是链接到序参量。在具有大的层间电子关联的半导体双层中的电子的量子霍尔相中,存在涌现的多体激子相,该多体激子相具有序参量,该序参量测量穿过隧穿带隙的激子的凝聚分数。由于通过施加面内磁场减少了层间耦合,因此该激子绝缘状态与通过层内电子关联稳定的复合费米子(松散地,具有两个附接的磁通量量子的电子)的费米金属相竞争。在这里,我们表明,金属和激子绝缘态之间的量子相变耦合双层成为不连续的(一阶)的影响,占主导地位的弱剩余无序的电子-电子相互作用的不同条款。的证据是基于精确的测定激子序参量的非弹性光散射测量接近的相边界。虽然有显着软化的低位激发,我们的实验支持的作用,竞争秩序的准粒子相关性在消除量子涨落的分歧。

英文摘要:

Complexity in many-particle systems occurs through processes of qualitative differentiation. These are described by concepts such as emerging states with specific symmetries that are linked to order parameters. In quantum Hall phases of electrons in semiconductor double layers with large inter-layer electron correlation there is an emergent many body exciton phase with an order parameter that measures the condensate fraction of excitons across the tunneling gap. As the inter-layer coupling is reduced by application of an in-plane magnetic field, this excitonic insulating state is brought in competition with a Fermi-metal phase of composite fermions (loosely, electrons with two magnetic flux quanta attached) stabilized by intra-layer electron correlation. Here we show that the quantum phase transformation between metallic and excitonic insulating states in the coupled bilayers becomes discontinuous (first-order) by impacts of different terms of the electron-electron interactions that prevail on weak residual disorder. The evidence is based on precise determinations of the excitonic order parameter by inelastic light scattering measurements close to the phase boundary. While there is marked softening of low-lying excitations, our experiments underpin the roles of competing orders linked to quasi-particle correlations in removing the divergence of quantum fluctuations.

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