Preprints

Michael R. Peterson and Sankar Das Sarma
Quantum Hall Phase Diagram of Second Landau-level Half-filled Bilayers: Abelian versus Non-Abelian States
arXiv:0908.3481. {pdf, cond-mat}

Sankar Das Sarma and Michael R. Peterson
Half-filled 2D Bilayers in a Strong Magnetic Field: Revisiting the 1/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
arXiv:0910.4385. {pdf, cond-mat}

Publications

Michael R. Peterson, Kwon Park, and Sankar Das Sarma
Spontaneous Particle-Hole Symmetry Breaking in the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Physical Review Letters 101, 156803. {pdf, cond-mat}

Michael R. Peterson, Chuanwei Zhang, Sumanta Tewari, and Sankar Das Sarma
Realizing the Strongly Correlated d-Mott State in a Fermionic Cold Atom Optical Lattice
Physical Review Letters 101, 150406 (2008). {pdf, cond-mat}

Michael R. Peterson, Thierry Jolicoeur, and Sankar Das Sarma
Finite Layer Thickness Stabilizes the Pfaffian State for the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect:  Wavefunction Overlap and Topological Degeneracy
Physical Review Letters 101, 016807 (2008). {pdf, cond-mat}     

Michael R. Peterson, Thierry Jolicoeur, and Sankar Das Sarma
Orbital Landau level dependence of the fractional quantum Hall effect in quasi-two dimensional electron layers: finite-thickness effects
Physical Review B 78, 155308 (2008). {pdf, cond-mat}

Michael R. Peterson, Subroto Mukerjee, B. Sriram Shastry, and Jan O. Haerter
Dynamical thermal response functions for strongly correlated one-dimensional systems: Hubbard and spinless fermion t-V model
Physical Review B 76, 125110 (2007).{pdf, cond-mat}

Michael R. Peterson, B. Sriram Shastry, and Jan O. Haerter
Thermoelectric effects in a strongly correlated model for NaxCoO2
Physical Review B 76, 165118 (2007). {pdf, cond-mat}

Jan O. Haerter, Michael R. Peterson, and B. Sriram Shastry
Finite temperature properties of the triangular lattice t-J model, applications to NaxCoO2
Physical Review B 74, 245118 (2006). {pdf, cond-mat}

Jan O. Haerter, Michael R. Peterson, and B. Sriram Shastry
Strong Correlations Produce the Curie-Weiss Phase of NaxCoO2
Physical Review Letters 97, 226402 (2006). {pdf, cond-mat}

Csaba Toke, Michael R. Peterson, Gun Sang Jeon, and Jainendra K. Jain
Fractional quantum Hall effect in the second Landau level: The importance of inter-composite-fermion interaction
Physical Review B 72, 125315 (2005). {pdf, cond-mat}

Gun Sang Jeon, Michael R. Peterson, and J. K. Jain
Microscopic tests of topological electron-vortex binding in the fractional Hall effect
Physical Review B 72, 035304 (2005). {pdf}

Jainendra K. Jain and Michael R. Peterson
Reconstructing the Electron in a Fractionalized Quantum Fluid
Physical Review Letters 94, 186808 (2005). {pdf, cond-mat}

Jainendra K. Jain, Kwon Park, Michael R. Peterson and Vito W. Scarola
Composite Fermion Theory of Excitations in the Fractional Quantum Hall
Solid State Communications 135, 602-609 (2005). {pdf}

Michael R. Peterson and Jainendra K. Jain
Flavor Altering Excitations of Composite Fermions
Physical Review Letters 93, 046402 (2004). {pdf, cond-mat}

Jainendra K. Jain, Chia-Chen Chang, Gun Sang Jeon, and Michael R. Peterson
Composite fermions in the neighborhood of nu=1/3
Solid State Communications 127, 805-811 (2003). {pdf, cond-mat}

Michael R. Peterson and Jainendra K. Jain
Possible persistence of fractional quantum Hall effect down to ultralow fillings
Physical Review B 68, 195310 (2003). {pdf}

Sudhansu S. Mandal, Michael R. Peterson, and Jainendra K. Jain
Two-Dimensional Electron System in High Magnetic Fields: Wigner Crystal versus Composite-Fermion Liquid
Physical Review Letters 90, 106403 (2003). {pdf, cond-mat}


                                                                                                                   
My thesis "Perturbative Improvements and Exotic Excitations of Composite Fermions" lives here.