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arXiv 2101.01419cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.str-elquant-ph
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区分竞争拓扑序的新方法

Novel method distinguishing between competing topological orders

Bivas Dutta, Wenmin Yang, Ron Aharon Melcer, Hemanta Kumar Kundu, Moty Heiblum, Vladimir Umansky, Yuval Oreg, Ady Stern, David Mross

摘要:

量子霍尔态--不断增长的拓扑绝缘体家族的祖先--是奇异量子相位的丰富来源。这些状态的性质反映在无隙边缘模式中,其又可以被分类为整数携带电子、分数携带分数电荷;以及具有零净电荷但具有明确定义的热量的中性携带激发。后两者可以服从任意统计,可以是阿贝尔或非阿贝尔。研究最多的假定非阿贝尔态是自旋极化填充因子ν=5/2,其电荷e/4准粒子伴随着中性模。然而,这种填充允许不同的可能拓扑序,可以是阿贝尔的或非阿贝尔的。虽然数值计算有利于非阿贝尔反Pff阶(A-Pf)具有最低的能量,但最近的热导测量表明实验实现的阶是粒子-空穴Pff阶(PH-Pf)。有人认为,A-Pf阶的不同边缘模式之间缺乏热平衡可以解释这种差异。的拓扑顺序的识别是至关重要的编织(干涉)操作的解释,更好地理解的热平衡过程中,和数值研究的可靠性。我们开发了一种新的方法,有助于识别ν=5/2态的拓扑顺序。通过在两个2D半平面之间创建界面,一个承载ν=5/2状态,另一个承载整数ν=3状态,界面支持具有1/2量子电导的分数ν=1/2电荷模式和中性马约拉纳模式。马约拉纳模式的存在,探测测量噪声,在相反的方向传播的电荷模式,断言的PH-Pf秩序的存在,但不是A-Pf秩序。

英文摘要:

Quantum Hall states - the progenitors of the growing family of topological insulators -- are rich source of exotic quantum phases. The nature of these states is reflected in the gapless edge modes, which in turn can be classified as integer - carrying electrons, fractional - carrying fractional charges; and neutral - carrying excitations with zero net charge but a well-defined amount of heat. The latter two may obey anyonic statistics, which can be abelian or non-abelian. The most-studied putative non-abelian state is the spin-polarized filling factor ν=5/2, whose charge e/4 quasiparticles are accompanied by neutral modes. This filling, however, permits different possible topological orders, which can be abelian or non-abelian. While numerical calculations favor the non-abelian anti-Pfaffian (A-Pf) order to have the lowest energy, recent thermal conductance measurements suggested the experimentally realized order to be the particle-hole Pfaffian (PH-Pf) order. It has been suggested that lack of thermal equilibration among the different edge modes of the A-Pf order can account for this discrepancy. The identification of the topological order is crucial for the interpretation of braiding (interference) operations, better understanding of the thermal equilibration process, and the reliability of the numerical studies. We developed a new method that helps identifying the topological order of the ν=5/2 state. By creating an interface between the two 2D half-planes, one hosting the ν=5/2 state and the other an integer ν=3 state, the interface supported a fractional ν=1/2 charge mode with 1/2 quantum conductance and a neutral Majorana mode. The presence of the Majorana mode, probed by measuring noise, propagating in the opposite direction to the charge mode, asserted the presence of the PH-Pf order but not that of the A-Pf order.

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