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Singular Pair Breaking in the Composite Fermi Liquid Description of the Half-Filled Landau Level

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310 (United States)
Fluctuations of the Chern-Simons gauge field in the composite Fermi liquid description of the half-filled Landau level are pair breaking in all angular momentum channels. For short-range electron-electron interactions these fluctuations are sufficiently strong to drive any T=0 pairing transition first order. For Coulomb interactions these fluctuations are weaker and a continuous transition is possible. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society }
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-97ER45639
OSTI ID:
304267
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 82; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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