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Heat transport has large potentialities to unveil new physics in mesoscopic systems. A striking illustration is the integer quantum Hall regime, where the robustness of Hall currents limits information accessible from charge transport.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 C. Altimiras , H. le Sueur , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly , F. Pierre

Split-gate constrictions can be used to produce controllable scattering in a fractional quantum Hall state and constitute a very versatile model system for the investigation of non-Fermi physics in edge states. Controllable inter-edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Stefano Roddaro , Vittorio Pellegrini , Fabio Beltram

The chiral Luttinger liquid theory for fractional quantum Hall edge transport predicts universal power-law behavior in the current-voltage ($I$-$V$) characteristics for electrons tunneling into the edge. However, it has not been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Zi-xiang Hu , R. N. Bhatt , Xin Wan , Kun Yang

Two-terminal conductance quantization in the context of quantum Hall (QH) physics is intimately related to the current carried by a discrete number of chiral edge modes. Upon pinching off a QH bar, one may engineer setups where some modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Sourav Manna , Ankur Das , Yuval Gefen , Moshe Goldstein

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) state is a genuinely new state of matter characterized by a non-trivial topology of its band structure. Its key feature is conducting edge channels whose spin polarization has potential for spintronic and quantum…

We consider a fractional quantum Hall bilayer system with an interface between quantum Hall states of filling fractions $(\nu_{\text{top}},\nu_{\text{bottom}})=(1,1)$ and $(1/3,2)$, motivated by a recent approach to engineering artificial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Moshe Goldstein , Yuval Gefen

The electrodynamical response of the edge of a compressible Quantum Hall system affects tunneling into the edge. Using the composite Fermi liquid theory, we derive an effective action for the edge modes interacting with tunneling charge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , A. V. Shytov , B. I. Halperin

We study the effect of backward scatterings in the tunneling at a point contact between the edges of a second level hierarchical fractional quantum Hall states. A universal scaling dimension of the tunneling conductance is obtained only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Imura , N. Nagaosa

A recent experiment [Cohen et al., Science 382, 542 (2023)] observed a robustly quantized $e^2/2h$ conductance in a quantum point contact between fractional quantum Hall edges (a quantum Hall transformer), which then vanishes at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Stuart Yi-Thomas , Jay D. Sau

Quantum spin-Hall edges are envisaged as next-generation transistors, yet they exhibit dissipationless transport only over short distances. Here we show that in a diffusive sample, where charge puddles with odd spin cause back-scattering, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Zhanning Wang , Pankaj Bhalla , Mark Edmonds , Michael S. Fuhrer , Dimitrie Culcer

We derive, from first principles, the complete Luttinger liquid theory of abelian quantum Hall edge states. This theory includes the effects of disorder and Coulomb interactions as well as the coupling to external electromagnetic fields. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Skoric , A. M. M. Pruisken

Devices exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect can be modeled by one-electron Schroedinger operators describing the planar motion of an electron in a perpendicular, constant magnetic field, and under the influence of an electrostatic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter D. Hislop , Eric Soccorsi

Edge reconstruction of gate-tunable compressible quantum Hall fluids in the filling fraction range 1/3 to 2/3 is studied by measuring transmitted conductance of two individually excited fractional $e^2/3h$ edge modes of bulk 2/3 fractional…

Filling factor $\nu=1$ incompressible states in ideal bilayer quantum Hall systems have spontaneous interlayer phase coherence and can be regarded either as easy-plane pseudospin ferromagnets or as condensates of excitons formed from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anton A. Burkov , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Enrico Rossi , Allan H. MacDonald

Exotic quantum Hall systems hosting counter-propagating edge states can show seemingly non-universal transport regimes, usually depending on the size of the sample. We experimentally probe transport in a quantum Hall sample engineered to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Aifei Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Patrice Roche , Carles Altimiras , François D. Parmentier , Olivier Maillet

The gapless edge modes of the Quantum Spin Hall insulator form a helical liquid in which the direction of motion along the edge is determined by the spin orientation of the electrons. In order to probe the Luttinger liquid physics of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Romain Vasseur , Joel E. Moore

We present a comprehensive numerical study of a microscopic model of the fractional quantum Hall system at filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, based on the disc geometry. Our model includes Coulomb interaction and a semi-realistic confining…

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

Understanding possible mechanisms, which can lead to suppression of helical edge transport in Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) systems, attracted huge attention right after the first experiments revealing the fragility of the ballistic conductance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Oleg M. Yevtushenko , Vladimir I. Yudson

Hall and diagonal resistances of bilayer fractional quantum Hall systems are discussed theoretically. The bilayers have electrodes attached separately to each layer. They are assumed to be coupled weakly by interlayer tunneling, while the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daijiro Yoshioka , Kentaro Nomura

When the quantum Hall effect occurs in a two-dimensional electron gas, all low-energy elementary excitations are localized near the system edge. The edge acts in many ways like a one-dimensional ring of electrons, except that a finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. H. MacDonald