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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 030404 (2008) [4 pages]

Quantum Hall Transition near a Fermion Feshbach Resonance in a Rotating Trap

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Kun Yang1 and Hui Zhai2,3,4
1NHMFL and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
2Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 100084
3Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA
4Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

Received 24 September 2007; published 24 January 2008

We consider two-species of fermions in a rotating trap that interact via an s-wave Feshbach resonance, at total Landau level filling factor two (or one for each species). We show that the system undergoes a quantum phase transition from a fermion integer quantum Hall state to a boson fractional quantum Hall state as the pairing interaction strength increases, with the transition occurring near the resonance. The effective field theory for the transition is shown to be that of a (emergent) massless relativistic bosonic field coupled to a Chern-Simons gauge field, with the coupling giving rise to semionic statistics to the emergent particles.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.030404
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.030404
PACS:
05.30.Fk, 03.75.Lm, 05.30.Jp