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arXiv:1706.00353 · Physical Review A

Hard-wall confinement of a fractional quantum Hall liquid

E. Macaluso, Iacopo Carusotto

Published Oct 9, 2017• 23 citations
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Abstract

We make use of numerical exact diagonalization calculations to explore the physics of $\ensuremath{\nu}=1/2$ bosonic fractional quantum Hall droplets in the presence of experimentally realistic cylindrically symmetric hard-wall potentials. This kind of confinement is found to produce very different many-body spectra compared to a harmonic trap or the so-called extremely steep limit. For a relatively weak confinement, the degeneracies are lifted and the low-lying excited states organize themselves in energy branches that can be explained in terms of their Jack polynomial representation. For a strong confinement, a strong spatial deformation of the droplet is found, with an unexpected depletion of its central density.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.96.043607

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