Sub-Landau levels in two-dimensional electron system in magnetic field

arXiv:2406.06212 · cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.mes-hall · Submitted 2024-06-10 · Read on arXiv

cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.mes-hall

Submitted: 2024-06-10

Updated: 2026-10-15

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: We study two interacting electrons in a two-dimensional system under a strong magnetic field and show that their numerically exact solutions organize into a set of sub-Landau levels characterized by

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We study two interacting electrons in a two-dimensional system under a strong magnetic field and show that their numerically exact solutions organize into a set of sub-Landau levels characterized by relative angular momentum quantum number m. These sub-levels define correlation-resolved subspaces of the Landau-level Hilbert space, while retaining the full degeneracy associated with center-of-mass motion. Within this structure, the accessible states in each correlation channel are effectively reduced, leading to a natural organization of guiding-center states consistent with a fractional occupancy. We further analyze the role of electron correlation, Zeeman splitting, and disorder in stabilizing spin-polarized electron-pair states. Building on the two-electron states, we construct a class of many-electron trial wavefunctions based on correlated electron pairs with fixed m, which encode short-range correlations through the vanishing of the pair wavefunction at small separation. Our results establish a direct connection between exact two-body physics and the organization of correlated many-electron states in the lowest Landau level, providing a microscopic perspective on how relative angular momentum structures can underpin the emergence of correlated phases in quantum Hall systems.

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