We consider the bosonic fractional quantum Hall effect in the presence of a non-Abelian gauge field in addition to the usual Abelian magnetic field. The non-Abelian field breaks the twofold internal state degeneracy, but preserves the Landau level degeneracy. Using exact diagonalization, we find that for moderate non-Abelian field strengths the system's behaviour resembles a single internal state quantum Hall system, while for stronger fields there is a phase transition to either two internal state behaviour or the complete absence of fractional quantum Hall plateaus. Usually the energy gap is reduced by the presence of a non-Abelian field, but some non-Abelian fields appear to slightly increase the gap of the $\nu=1$ and $\nu=3/2$ Read-Rezayi states.
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文献种类:期刊
期刊名称: New Journal of Physics
期刊缩写: New J. Phys.
期卷页: 2011年第13卷 065002页
备注:arXiv:1012.3581v1; 15 pages, 8 figures, submitted to New J. Phys