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We investigate the nature of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state at filling factor $\nu=13/5$, and its particle-hole conjugate state at $12/5$, with the Coulomb interaction, and address the issue of possible competing states. Based on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-23 W. Zhu , S. S. Gong , F. D. M. Haldane , D. N. Sheng

Employing a method of exact diagonalization for finite-size systems, we investigate the magnetization curve in the ground state of an antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 ladder with additional exchange interactions on diagonal bonds, which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Takashi Tonegawa , Takeshi Nishida , Makoto Kaburagi

We report on a finite-size Hartree-Fock study of the competition between disorder and interactions in a two-dimensional electron gas near Landau level filling factor $\nu=1$. The ground state at $\nu=1$ evolves with increasing disorder from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jairo Sinova , A. H. MacDonald , S. M. Girvin

In a low-disorder two-dimensional electron system, when two Landau levels of opposite spin or pseudospin cross at the Fermi level, the dominance of the exchange energy can lead to a ferromagnetic, quantum Hall ground state whose gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Meng K. Ma , Chengyu Wang , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

We report on exact-diagonalization studies of correlated many-electron states in the half-filled Landau levels of graphene, including pseudospin (valley) degeneracy. We demonstrate that the polarized Fermi sea of non-interacting composite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-23 Arkadiusz Wojs , Gunnar Moller , Nigel R. Cooper

We introduce a model compound featuring a spin-1/2 frustrated square lattice partially coupled by spin-5/2. A significant magnetization plateau exceeding 60 T could be observed, indicating a quantum state formed by $S$ = 1/2 spins in the…

We synthesize and partly review recent developments relating the physics of the half-filled Landau level in two dimensions to correlated surface states of topological insulators in three dimensions. The latter are in turn related to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-10 Chong Wang , T. Senthil

We study the performance of a quantum wire spin filter that is based on the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of the electron-electron interaction. The finite length wire is attached to two semi-infinite nonmagnetic leads.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

A proposal of the existence of an {\em Anomalous} phase ($\mathcal{A}$ phase) [https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.056202 Das et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056202 (2023)] at the experimental range of moderate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Sudipto Das , Sahana Das , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We provide numerical evidence that a p_{x}-i p_{y} paired Bonderson--Slingerland (BS) non-Abelian hierarchy state is a strong candidate for the observed nu=12/5 quantum Hall plateau. We confirm the existence of a gapped incompressible nu =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Parsa Bonderson , Adrian E. Feiguin , Gunnar Moller , J. K. Slingerland

Significant insights into non-Abelian quantum Hall states were obtained from studying special multi-particle interaction Hamiltonians, whose unique ground states are the Moore-Read and Read-Rezayi states for the case of spinless electrons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-21 Kun Yang , E. H. Rezayi

We study a rapidly rotating gas of unpolarized spin-1/2 ultracold fermions in the two-dimensional regime when all atoms reside in the lowest Landau level. Due to the presence of the spin degree of freedom both s-wave and p-wave interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Moller , Th. Jolicoeur , N. Regnault

We show that the recently discovered $\nu=1/2$ quantum Hall states in bilayer systems are triplet p-wave pairing states of composite Fermions, of exactly the same form as $^{3}$He superfluids. The observed persistence (though weakening) of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Tin-Lun Ho

Tunneling measurements on 2D electron gases at high magnetic field reveal a qualitative difference between the two spin sublevels of the lowest Landau level. While the tunneling current-voltage characteristic at filling factor $\nu = 1/2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

The nu=5/2 fractional quantum Hall state is studied numerically, directly including the effects of electron scattering between neighboring Landau levels. Significant reduction of the excitation gap caused by the LL mixing explains the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

We study the edge spin current and spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The edge effect removes the degeneracy of Landau levels due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yun-Juan Bao , Huai-Bing Zhuang , Shun-Qing Shen , Fu-Chun Zhang

Tunneling of electrons into a two-dimensional electron system is known to exhibit an anomaly at low bias, in which the tunneling conductance vanishes due to a many-body interaction effect. Recent experiments have measured this anomaly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-02 Debanjan Chowdhury , Brian Skinner , Patrick A. Lee

We study striped states in the quantum Hall system around half-filled high Landau levels and obtain the optimal orientation of the striped state in the presence of an external unidirectional periodic potential. It is shown that the optimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 T. Aoyama , K. Ishikawa , N. Maeda

We have analyzed the crucial role the Coulomb interaction strength plays on the even and odd denominator fractional quantum Hall effects in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the ZnO heterointerface. In this system, the Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Wenchen Luo , Tapash Chakraborty