NEUTRAL SUPERFLUID MODES AND MAGNETIC MONOPOLES IN MULTILAYER QUANTUM HALL SYSTEMS

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作者
WEN, XG [1 ]
ZEE, A [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,INST THEORET PHYS,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1811
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We show that, in the absence of interlayer hopping, the nu = 1/m quantum Hall states in double-layer systems contain a neutral gapless mode with linear dispersion, describing the relative fluctuations of the electron densities in the two layers. At finite temperature the system experiences a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. In the presence of interlayer hopping an energy gap proportional to the square root of the hopping amplitude will be opened. In field theory this corresponds to a U(1) gauge field acquiring a mass due to the monopole-antimonopole plasma in the (2 + 1)-dimensional spacetime.
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页码:1811 / 1814
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