Magnetization and Spin Excitations of Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States

TL;DR

This paper explores the spin structures and degeneracies of non-Abelian quantum Hall states, extending previous models to include electron spin-1/2 and revealing emergent SU(3) symmetry.

Contribution

It generalizes the study of non-Abelian quantum Hall states to include electron spin, uncovering emergent SU(3) symmetry and complex spin structures in the ground states.

Findings

Ground states exhibit large degeneracies without Zeeman splitting.

Emergent SU(3) symmetry explains the spin structure of states.

States with different spins have similar quasi-hole properties.

Abstract

Significant insights into non-Abelian quantum Hall states were obtained from studying special multi-particle interaction Hamiltonians, whose unique ground states are the Moore-Read and Read-Rezayi states for the case of spinless electrons. We generalize this approach to include the electronic spin-1/2 degree of freedom. We demonstrate that in the absence of Zeeman splitting the ground states of such Hamiltonians have large degeneracies and very rich spin structures. The spin structure of the ground states and low-energy excitations can be understood based on an emergent SU(3) symmetry for the case corresponding to the Moore-Read state. These states with different spin quantum numbers represent non-Abelian quantum Hall states with different magnetizations, whose quasi-hole properties are likely to be similar to those of their spin polarized counterparts.