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A model system is considered where two dimensional electrons are confined by a harmonic potential in one direction, and are free in the other direction. Ground state in strong magnetic fields is investigated through numerical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Daijiro Yoshioka

It is well established that the ground states of a two-dimensional electron gas with half-filled high ($N \ge 2$) Landau levels are compressible charge-ordered states, known as quantum Hall stripe (QHS) phases. The generic features of QHSs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 X. Fu , Q. Shi , M. A. Zudov , G. C. Gardner , J. D. Watson , M. J. Manfra , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Magnetotransport measurements on two-dimensional electrons confined to wide GaAs quantum wells reveal a remarkable evolution of the ground state at filling factor $\nu=1/2$ as we tilt the sample in the magnetic field. Starting with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-08 Sukret Hasdemir , Yang Liu , H. Deng , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

The low-lying excitations of a quantum Hall state on a disk geometry are edge excitations. Their dynamics is governed by a conformal field theory on the cylinder defined by the disk boundary and the time variable. We give a simple and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Cappelli , G. V. Dunne , C. A. Trugenberger , G. R. Zemba

The fractional quantum Hall state (FQHS) observed in the lowest Landau level at filling factor $\nu=1/2$ in wide quantum wells has been enigmatic for decades because the two-dimensional electron system (2DES) has a bilayer charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Siddharth Kumar Singh , Chengyu Wang , Adbhut Gupta , Kirk W. Baldwin , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Mansour Shayegan

We report the observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect in the lowest Landau level of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES), residing in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Cd(1-x)Mn(x)Te. The presence of magnetic impurities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Betthausen , P. Giudici , A. Iankilevitch , C. Preis , V. Kolkovsky , M. Wiater , G. Karczewski , B. A. Piot , J. Kunc , M. Potemski , T. Wojtowicz , D. Weiss

The energy spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the fractional quantum Hall regime interacting with an optically injected valence band hole is studied as a function of the filling factor $\nu$ and the separation $d$ between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

We consider interacting, charged spins on a torus described by a gapped Hamiltonian with a unique groundstate and conserved local charge. Using quasi-adiabatic evolution of the groundstate around a flux-torus, we prove, without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Matthew B. Hastings , Spyridon Michalakis

Magneto-transport measurements in a clean two-dimensional electron system confined to a wide GaAs quantum well reveal that, when the electrons occupy two electric subbands, the sequences of fractional quantum Hall states observed at high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Shabani , Y. Liu , M. Shayegan

We studied neutral excitations in a two-dimensional electron system with an orbital momentum $\Delta M = 1$ and spin projection over magnetic field axis $\Delta S_z = 1$ in the vicinity of a filling factor of 3/2. It is shown that the 3/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 L. V. Kulik , V. A. Kuznetsov , A. S. Zhuravlev , V. Umansky , I. V. Kukushkin

We present a numerical study of fractional quantum Hall liquid at Landau level filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in a microscopic model including long-range Coulomb interaction and edge confining potential, based on the disc geometry. We find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zi-Xiang Hu , Hua Chen , Kun Yang , E. H. Rezayi , Xin Wan

We report the observation of the quantized Hall effect in suspended graphene probed with a two-terminal lead geometry. The failure of earlier Hall-bar measurements is discussed and attributed to the placement of voltage probes in mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-22 I. Skachko , X. Du , F. Duerr , A. Luican , D. A. Abanin , L. S. Levitov , E. Y. Andrei

The excitations of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states have been largely inaccessible to experimental probes until recently. New electron scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) results from Hu et.al. (arXiv:2308.05789) show promise in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jyesta M. Adhidewata , Joel E. Moore

We study electronic structures of quasi-two-dimensional finite electron systems in high magnetic fields. The solutions in the fractional quantum Hall regime are interpreted as quantum liquids of electrons and off-electron vortices. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henri Saarikoski , Ari Harju

The two-dimensional electron system (2DES) is a unique laboratory for the physics of interacting particles. Application of a large magnetic field produces massively degenerate quantum levels known as Landau levels. Within a Landau level the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 O. E. Dial , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

In low-disorder, two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs), the fractional quantum Hall states at very small Landau level fillings ($\nu$) terminate in a Wigner solid (WS) phase, where electrons arrange themselves in a periodic array. The WS…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 P. T. Madathil , K. A. Villegas Rosales , Y. J. Chung , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , L. W. Engel , M. Shayegan

On the basis of our previous studies on energy levels and wave functions of single electrons in a strong magnetic field, the energy levels and wave functions of non-interacting electron gas system, electron gas Hall surface density and Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-19 Kang Li , Shuming Long , Jianhua Wang , Yi Yuan

In the extreme quantum limit, when the Landau level filling factor $\nu<1$, the dominant electron-electron interaction in low-disorder two-dimensional electron systems leads to exotic many-body phases. The ground states at even-denominator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Chengyu Wang , P. T. Madathil , S. K. Singh , A. Gupta , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

A theory is developed for the paired even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level. We show that electrons bind to quantized vortices to form composite fermions, interacting through an exact instantaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuan-Ming Lu , Yue Yu , Ziqiang Wang

In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina