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After a brief survey of theoretical concepts for the two-parameter scaling theory in the integer quantum Hall effect regime, a comprehensive set of early, recent and new experimental results on constructing scaling diagrams for conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Yurii G. Arapov , Svetlana V. Gudina , Vladimir N. Neverov , Nikita S. Sandakov , Nina G. Shelushinina

We consider the most general scale invariant radial Hamiltonian allowing for anisotropic scaling between space and time. We formulate a renormalisation group analysis of this system and demonstrate the existence of a quantum phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Daniel K. Brattan , Omrie Ovdat , Eric Akkermans

We identify some hidden symmetries of Chern-Simons theories, such as appear in the effective theory for quantized Hall states. This allows us to determine which filling fractions admit spin-singlet quantum Hall states. Our results shed some…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Chetan Nayak , Frank Wilczek

We study the anisotropic effect of the Coulomb interaction on a 1/3-filling fractional quantum Hall system by using an exact diagonalization method on small systems in torus geometry. For weak anisotropy the system remains to be an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-18 Hao Wang , Rajesh Narayanan , Xin Wan , Fuchun Zhang

We study a delocalization transition for non-interacting quasiparticles moving in two dimensions, which belongs to a new symmetry class. This symmetry class can be realised in a dirty, gapless superconductor in which time reversal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Kagalovsky , B. Horovitz , Y. Avishai , J. T. Chalker

The influence of dephasing on the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is studied. In the absence of dephasing, the longitudinal resistance in a QSHE system exhibits the quantum plateaus. We find that these quantum plateaus are robust against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hua Jiang , Shuguang Cheng , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The mapping between the metal-insulator transition of the quantum Hall system and a superfluid-to-insulator transition is revisited based on a disordered anyon model. The one-parameter scaling of the superfluid-to-insulator transition is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Qian Wang

Multiscale synergy -- the interplay of a system's distinct characteristic length, time, and energy scales -- is becoming a unifying thread across many contemporary branches of science. Ranging from moir\'e and super-moir\'e materials and…

We develop a theory of quantum spin Hall insulators with arbitrary spin $J$. Our analysis demonstrates that such systems support $J+\tfrac{1}{2}$ pairs of helical edge modes protected by nontrivial mirror Chern numbers. We establish that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Takuto Kawakami , Igor Kuzmenko , Yshai Avishai , Yigal Meir , Masatoshi Sato

This thesis explores the application of differential geometric and general relativistic techniques to deepen our understanding of quantum mechanical systems. We focus on three systems, employing these mathematical frameworks to uncover…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-19 Aonghus Hunter-McCabe , Brian P. Dolan , Peter Coles

A quantum phase transition that was recently observed in a high-mobility silicon MOSFET is analyzed in terms of a scaling theory. The most striking characteristic of the transition is a divergence of the thermopower, according to an inverse…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-01 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We study a cosmological setup consisting of a FRW metric as the background geometry with a massless scalar field in the framework of classical polymerization of a given dynamical system. To do this, we first introduce the polymeric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-21 B. Vakili , K. Nozari , V. Hosseinzadeh , M. A. Gorji

Unconventional fermions with high degeneracies in three dimensions beyond Weyl and Dirac fermions have sparked tremendous interest in condensed matter physics. Here, we study quantum Hall effects (QHEs) in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Yong Xu , L. -M. Duan

Effect of interlayer tunneling in the double-layer fractional quantum Hall system at the total Landau level filling of $\nu=1/m$ ($m$: odd integer) is analyzed with the composite-fermion approach in which the flux attachment is directly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Nakajima , H. Aoki

We observe geometric resonance features of composite fermions on the flanks of the even denominator {\nu} = 1/2 fractional quantum Hall state in high-mobility two-dimensional electron and hole systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. A. Mueed , D. Kamburov , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We demonstrate that a class of modulation spaces are examples of a smooth structure on the noncommutative 2-torus in the sense of recent developments in KK-theory. In addition, we prove that this class of modulation spaces can be…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Are Austad , Franz Luef

We studied quantum phase transitions in the antiferromagnetic dimerized spin-1/2 XY chain andvtwo-leg ladders. From analysis of several spin models we present our main result: the framework to deal with topological orders and hidden…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-06 Gennady Y. Chitov , Toplal Pandey

At low temperatures observations of the Hall resistance for Quantum Hall systems at the interface between two Hall plateaux reveal a power-law behaviour, dR_xy/dB ~ T^(-p) (with p = 0.42 +/- 0.01); changing at still smaller temperatures, T…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-05 Allan Bayntun , C. P. Burgess

To probe the nature of the even-fraction quantum Hall system, we have investigated the low-lying excitation spectrum by means of exact diagonalization for finite systems. We have found (i) a striking one-to-one correspondence (i.e., a shell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Masaru Onoda , Takahiro Mizusaki , Takaharu Otsuka , Hideo Aoki

An effective theory is constructed for analyzing a generic phase transition between the quantum spin Hall and the insulator phases. Occurrence of degeneracies due to closing of the gap at the transition are carefully elucidated. For systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shuichi Murakami , Satoshi Iso , Yshai Avishai , Masaru Onoda , Naoto Nagaosa