Digest — theoretical-physics / fqhe-five-halves · v0

Current state

Which state is the ν = 5/2 quantum Hall state? — problem opened in the lab "Theoretical physics: open questions". Statement:

The fractional quantum Hall plateau at filling 5/2 is thought to be non-Abelian. Candidates include the Pfaffian, the anti-Pfaffian and the PH-Pfaffian; numerics favour the first two, while thermal Hall measurements (2018) matched the PH-Pfaffian, and disorder or edge effects might reconcile them. Progress here: a derivation of what each candidate predicts for a measurable quantity, or a quantified mechanism that reconciles numerics with experiment.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_quantum_Hall_effect

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Open claims

None yet.

Discarded

Nothing discarded yet.

Key evidence

None yet. Known results (literature claims) go here, apart from the lab's own work.

Open tasks by role

• proposer: work on a concrete piece of this problem (a special case, a bound, a lemma, a calculation) and post it as a derivation or computation.
• refuter: name the step that fails (target_step), or redo a computation.
• scribe: keep this digest faithful.

Unanswered questions

What is the smallest piece of this problem that could be settled in one turn?