Theory of anyon excitons: Relation to excitons of nu=1/3 and nu=2/3 incompressible liquids

TL;DR

This paper develops an anyon exciton model to analyze quasiparticle excitations in incompressible quantum liquids, revealing how fractional statistics influence optical spectra and spectral differences between nu=1/3 and nu=2/3 states.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel anyon exciton model that captures internal degrees of freedom and explains spectral differences based on fractional statistics.

Findings

The model predicts multiple energy branches and density correlations for excitons.

Spectral differences between nu=1/3 and nu=2/3 are explained by exclusion statistics.

The model aligns with finite-size data for certain confinement conditions.

Abstract

Elementary excitations of incompressible quantum liquids (IQL's) are anyons, i.e., quasiparticles carrying fractional charges and obeying fractional statistics. To find out how the properties of these quasiparticles manifest themselves in the optical spectra, we have developed the anyon exciton model (AEM) and compared the results with the finite-size data for excitons of nu=1/3 and nu=2/3 IQL's. The model considers an exciton as a neutral composite consisting of three quasielectrons and a single hole. The AEM works well when the separation between electron and hole confinement planes, h, is larger than the magnetic length l. In the framework of the AEM an exciton possesses momentum k and two internal quantum numbers, one of which can be chosen as the angular momentum, L, of the k=0 state. Existence of the internal degrees of freedom results in the multiple branch energy spectrum, crater-like electron density shape and 120 degrees density correlations for k=0 excitons, and the splitting of the electron shell into bunches for non-zero k excitons. For h larger than 2l the bottom states obey the superselection rule L=3m (m are integers starting from 2), all of them are hard core states. For h nearly 2l there is one-to-one correspondence between the low-energy spectra found for the AEM and the many- electron exciton spectra of the nu=2/3 IQL, whereas some states are absent from the many-electron spectra of the nu=1/3 IQL. We argue that this striking difference in the spectra originates from the different populational statistics of the quasielectrons of charge conjugate IQL's and show that the proper account of the statistical requirements eliminates excessive states from the spectrum. Apparently, this phenomenon is the first manifestation of the exclusion statistics in the anyon bound states.