Monte Carlo evaluation of trial wave functions for the fractional quantized Hall effect: Disk geometry

Feb 15, 1986
25 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.B 33 (1986) 2221-2246

Citations per year

198619962006201620250123456
Abstract: (APS)
Monte Carlo methods have been employed to evaluate the energy of two previously proposed trial wave functions for the quasiparticle at the ν=13 quantized Hall state of the two-dimensional electron system. The two wave functions have the same energy within our statistical accuracy, and are consistent with a value ɛ̃+(13)≈(0.073±0.008)e2εlo, where l0 is the magnetic length, and ε the background dielectric constant. Simulations of the quasihole state confirm previous estimates of ɛ̃−(13)≈0.026e2εl0. We have also studied the charge distributions of the quasiparticle and quasihole states, and we have evaluated the energies of a previously proposed microscopic trial wave function for the ground state at ν=25, 23, and 27.