Orbitally tuned composite-fermion metal-to-superfluid transitions

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Main Authors: Kumar, Ravi, Firon, Tomer, Haug, André, Yutushui, Misha, Gaon, Alon Ner, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Mross, David F., Ronen, Yuval
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author Kumar, Ravi
Firon, Tomer
Haug, André
Yutushui, Misha
Gaon, Alon Ner
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Mross, David F.
Ronen, Yuval
author_facet Kumar, Ravi
Firon, Tomer
Haug, André
Yutushui, Misha
Gaon, Alon Ner
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Mross, David F.
Ronen, Yuval
contents The effective interaction between composite fermions, set entirely by the Coulomb potential and the underlying electronic Landau level orbitals, can stabilize exotic fractional quantum Hall states. In particular, half-filled Landau levels with different orbital character can host either metallic or paired phases of composite fermions. Here, we leverage experimental control over the orbital composition to realize a composite-fermion pairing transition in the first excited Landau level of bilayer graphene. Transport measurements at filling factors v = 9/2 and 11/2 reveal conductive states giving way to well-developed plateaus with increasing displacement fields. These states are insensitive to an in-plane magnetic field, indicating single-component ground states and thus pointing at non-Abelian orders. Our numerical study, based on displacement-field-dependent Landau-level wavefunctions, supports the orbital origin of the pairing transition and suggests Moore-Read or anti-Pfaffian ground states.
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spellingShingle Orbitally tuned composite-fermion metal-to-superfluid transitions
Kumar, Ravi
Firon, Tomer
Haug, André
Yutushui, Misha
Gaon, Alon Ner
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Mross, David F.
Ronen, Yuval
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The effective interaction between composite fermions, set entirely by the Coulomb potential and the underlying electronic Landau level orbitals, can stabilize exotic fractional quantum Hall states. In particular, half-filled Landau levels with different orbital character can host either metallic or paired phases of composite fermions. Here, we leverage experimental control over the orbital composition to realize a composite-fermion pairing transition in the first excited Landau level of bilayer graphene. Transport measurements at filling factors v = 9/2 and 11/2 reveal conductive states giving way to well-developed plateaus with increasing displacement fields. These states are insensitive to an in-plane magnetic field, indicating single-component ground states and thus pointing at non-Abelian orders. Our numerical study, based on displacement-field-dependent Landau-level wavefunctions, supports the orbital origin of the pairing transition and suggests Moore-Read or anti-Pfaffian ground states.
title Orbitally tuned composite-fermion metal-to-superfluid transitions
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21383