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Phys Rev Lett
; 84(3): 546-9, 2000 Jan 17.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11015960
RESUMO
We report observations of collective gap excitations of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at filling factors nu = p/(2p+1) ( p = integer), for 1/3=nu=2/3, by inelastic light scattering. The collective gap energies at nu = 1/3, 2/5, and 3/7 show a drastic decrease as the value nu = 1/2 is approached. These energies and the one at nu = 3/5 display the linear scaling with (e(2)/epsilonl(0))/|2p+1| that is characteristic of composite fermions in Chern-Simons gauge fields. In a narrow range of nu centered at 1/2, where the FQH gaps collapse, we observe a new excitation mode which exists only at temperatures below 150 mK.