Abstract

Matteo Carrega (INFN, Pisa, Italy)


Anomalous charge tunneling in the fractional quantum Hall edge states at filling factor ν = 5/2

We explain effective charge anomalies recently observed for fractional quantum Hall edge states at nu=5/2 [1, 2]. The experimental data of differential conductance and excess noise are fitted, using the anti-Pfaffian model, by properly take into account renormalizations of the Luttinger parameters induced by the coupling of the system with an intrinsic 1/f noise. We demonstrate that a peculiar agglomerate excitation with charge e/2, double of the expected e/4 charge, dominates the transport properties at low temperatures and bias.

[1] M. Dolev, Y. Gross, Y. C. Chung, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu, Phys. Rev. B. 81, 161303(R) (2010)
[2] M. Carrega, D. Ferraro, A. Braggio, N. Magnoli, M. Sassetti, arXiv: 1102.5666 [cond-mat] (Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett).