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We study the influence of quantizing perpendicular magnetic fields on the ground state of a bilayer with electron and hole fluids separated by an opaque tunnel barrier. In the absence of a field, the ground state at low carrier densities is…

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Effect of dc electric field on transport of highly mobile 2D electrons is studied in wide GaAs single quantum wells placed in titled magnetic fields. The study shows that in perpendicular magnetic field resistance oscillates due to electric…

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The transition from the quantum Hall state to the insulator is considered for non-interacting electrons in a two-dimensional disordered lattice model with perpendicular magnetic field. Using correlated random disorder potentials the…

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Magneto-transport measurements are performed on the two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure. By increasing the magnetic field perpendicular to the 2DES, magnetoresistivity oscillations due to Landau…

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The spectrum of charged particles in translation-invariant systems in a magnetic field is characterized by the Landau levels, which play a fundamental role in the thermodynamic and transport properties of solids. The topological nature and…

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The nature of a metal--insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions at integer bulk filling, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al. [1], is addressed. We are particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

A quantum Hall system which is divided into two laterally coupled subsystems by means of a tunneling barrier exhibits a complex Landau level dispersion. Magnetotunneling spectroscopy is employed to investigate the small energy gaps which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Matthias Habl , Werner Wegscheider

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

Two-dimensional electron gas in the integer quantum Hall regime is investigated numerically by studying the dynamics of an electron hopping on a square lattice subject to a perpendicular magnetic field and random on-site energy with white…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-02-07 C. Wang , Y. Avishai , Y. Meir , X. R. Wang

We study dynamics of electrons in a magnetic field using a network model with two channels per link with random mixing in a random intrachannel potential; the channels represent either two Landau levels or two spin states. We consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Kagalovsky , B. Horovitz , Y. Avishai

The quantum Hall effect was originally observed in a two-dimensional electron gas forming Landau levels when exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field and was later generalized to Chern insulators without net magnetization. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Benjamin Michen , Jan Carl Budich

The recent discovery of the 3D quantum Hall effect in $\mathrm{HfTe_5}$ has also revealed puzzling signatures of possible 3D fractionalization. Beyond the first plateau associated with the lowest Landau band, Hall conductivity exhibits a…

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We study the spin quantum Hall effect and transitions between Hall plateaus in quasi two-dimensional network models consisting of several coupled layers. Systems exhibiting the spin quantum Hall effect belong to class C in the symmetry…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-18 J. T. Chalker , M. Ortuño , A. M. Somoza

We study the localization properties of two-dimensional electrons in a weak perpendicular magnetic field. For this purpose we construct weakly chiral network models on the square and triangular lattices, by separating in space the regions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 V. V. Mkhitaryan , V. Kagalovsky , M. E. Raikh

We present a gating scheme to separate even strong parallel conductance from the magneto-transport signatures and properties of a two-dimensional electron system. By varying the electron density in the parallel conducting layer, we can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Sebastian Peters , Lars Tiemann , Christian Reichl , Stefan Fält , Werner Dietsche , Werner Wegscheider

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) state, observed in a zero magnetic field in HgTe quantum wells, respects the time-reversal symmetry and is distinct from quantum Hall (QH) states. We show that the QSH state persists in strong quantizing fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-23 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

The scaling behavior of the quantum phase transition from an insulator to a quantum Hall plateau state has often been examined within systems realizing Landau levels. We study the topological transition in energy band models with nonzero…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-04-30 Jerimie Priest , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng

We investigate a gapped two-dimensional nodal-line semimetal subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. We identify an unusual pattern for Landau levels, where the energy of Landau levels first decreases and then starts increasing versus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Shahin Barati , Hamid Rahimpoor , Saeed H. Abedinpour

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

The two-dimensional motion of a charged particle in a random potential and a transverse magnetic field is believed to be delocalized only at discrete energies $E_N$. In strong fields there is a small positive deviation of $E_N$ from the…

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