Gauge fluctuations and interlayer coherence in bilayer composite fermion metals

Robert Cipri, N. E. Bonesteel

Physical Review B · 2014 · 17 citations · 22 references

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Fluctuations of the gauge fields suppress interlayer phase coherence, for a composite Fermi liquid in a quantum Hall bilayer with total filling factor of 1. This could explain why the interlayer coherent state has not been observed experimentally in such a system.

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