I have been reading tong's lectures notes, as well as Prange / Girvin book and Laughlin nobel's lecture. I still can't figure it out.
What is the laughlin ground state off ? I understand there are neutral excitations that are either bound qp-qh pairs or unbound qp-qh pairs (is that correct) ? The bound one giving the magneto-roton ?
What about the charged excitations ? They change the density, does that mean they aren't excited states ? If they are, why don't we ever have a energy spectrum showin them as excited states ?
Is it possible to excited as 1/m state to a 1/m-2 state ? For instance to excite the 1/3 state to a 1 state ?
For instance here (p57,58), they talk about 1 quasi electron state aournd 1/3 filling fraction as a ground state (though I noted the energy mentionned seems to be higher than the 1/3 state. Does that mean that the 1/3 state is the ground state of any small density variation ? How small, as lowering to much the density should leat to a 1 state ?)
This topic didn't help as it's going in the other direction, stating that excitation aren't excited states.