Pseudo-skyrmion effects on tunneling conductivity in coherent bilayer quantum Hall states atν=1

Abstract

We present a mechamism why interlayer tunneling conductivity in coherent bilayer quantum Hall states at ν = 1 is anomalously large, but finite in the recent experiment. According to the mechanism, pseudoSkyrmions causes the finite conductivity, although there exists an expectation that dissipationless tunneling current arises in the state. PseudoSkyrmions have an intrinsic polarization field perpendicular to the layers, which causes the dissipation.Using the mechanism we show that the large peak in the conductivity remains for weak parallel magnetic field, but decay rapidly after its strength is beyond a critical one, ∼ 0.1 Tesla.