{
  "id": "cond-mat/0110083",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-10-04T00:46:52.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-10-04T00:46:52.000Z",
  "title": "Theory of Quantum Hall Nematics",
  "authors": [
    "Leo Radzihovsky",
    "Alan T. Dorsey"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, RevTeX, submitted to PRL",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 216802 (2002)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.216802",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.str-el"
  ],
  "abstract": "Transport measurements on two dimensional electron systems in moderate magnetic fields suggest the existence of a spontaneously orientationally-ordered, compressible liquid state. We develop and analyze a microscopic theory of such a ``quantum Hall nematic'' (QHN) phase, predict the existence of a novel, highly anisotropic $q^3$ density-director mode, find that the T=0 long-range orientational order is unstable to weak disorder, and compute the tunneling into such a strongly correlated state. This microscopic approach is supported and complemented by a hydrodynamic model of the QHN, which, in the dissipationless limit, reproduces the modes of the microscopic model.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-10-04T00:46:52.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum hall nematic",
      "moderate magnetic fields",
      "dimensional electron systems",
      "long-range orientational order",
      "transport measurements"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}