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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

We present a device architecture of hybrid-edge and dual-gated quantum point contact. We demonstrate improved electrostatic control over the separation, position, and coupling of each broken-symmetry compressible strip in graphene. Via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Jaden Ma , Xihe Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

A quantum Hall edge state provides a rich foundation to study electrons in 1-dimension (1d) but is limited to chiral propagation along a single direction. Here, we demonstrate a versatile platform to realize new 1d systems made by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , J. Y. Luo , A. F. Young , B. Hunt , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , R. C. Ashoori , P. Jarillo-Herrero

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects realized in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and multilayer-graphene-based moir\'e heterostructures have captured a tremendous growth of interest. In this work, we propose that rhombohedral multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Yanran Shi , Bo Xie , Fengfan Ren , Xinyu Cai , Zhongqing Guo , Qiao Li , Xin Lu , Nicolas Regnault , Zhongkai Liu , Jianpeng Liu

We investigate low-temperature magneto-transport in recently developed, high-quality multi-terminal suspended bilayer graphene devices, enabling the independent measurement of the longitudinal and transverse resistance. We observe clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Dong-Keun Ki , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Dmitry A. Abanin , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We find a series of possible continuous quantum phase transitions between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at the same filling fraction in two-component quantum Hall systems. These can be driven by tuning the interlayer tunneling and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Gang Wen

The so called quantum spin Hall phase is a topologically non trivial insulating phase that is predicted to appear in graphene and graphene-like systems. In this work we address the question of whether this topological property persists in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 N. A. Garcia-Martinez , J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We here classify of all the fully gapped \emph{massive} and \emph{gapless} phases in bilayer graphene. The effective low energy theory in bilayer graphene is constructed, and various discrete and continuous symmetries of the non-interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-18 Bitan Roy

We investigate the possibility of a strongly correlated Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) state in bulk three dimensional isotropic (not layered) materials. We find that a FQH state can exist at low densities only if it is accompanied by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-13 F. J. Burnell , B. Andrei Bernevig , D. P. Arovas

We quantum mechanically analyze the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene. This will be done by building the corresponding states in terms of a potential governing the interactions and discussing other issues. More precisely, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Ahmed Jellal , Bellati Malika

Hole-conjugate states of the fractional quantum Hall effect host counter-propagating edge channels which are thought to exchange charge and energy. These exchanges have been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental works; in…

We present a detailed microscopic investigation of fractional quantum Hall states with gapped boundaries in a coupled bilayer lattice model featuring holes whose counterpropagating chiral edge states are hybridized and gapped out. We focus…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-14 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

Proximity effects resulting from depositing a graphene layer on a TMD substrate layer change the dynamics of the electronic states in graphene, inducing spin orbit coupling (SOC) and staggered potential effects. An effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Abdulrhman M. Alsharari , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

Due to its fourfold spin-valley degeneracy, graphene in a strong magnetic field may be viewed as a four-component quantum Hall system. We investigate the consequences of this particular structure on a possible, yet unobserved, fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-08 Z. Papić , M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault

We show nonlinear transport experiments on clean, suspended bilayer graphene that reveal a gap in the density of states. Looking at the evolution of the gap in magnetic fields of different orientation, we find that the groundstate is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Frank Freitag , Markus Weiss , Romain Maurand , Jelena Trbovic , Christian Schönenberger

Twisted graphene multilayers are highly tunable flatband systems for developing new phases of matter. Thus far, while orbital ferromagnetism has been observed in valley polarized phases, the long-range orders of other correlated phases as…

The shortcomings of mono-component systems, e.g., the gapless nature of graphene, the lack of air-stability in phosphorene, etc. have drawn great attention toward stacked materials expected to show interesting electronic and optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Maryam Mahdavifar , Sima Shekarforoush , Farhad Khoeini

Magnetic fields quench the kinetic energy of two dimensional electrons, confining them to highly degenerate Landau levels. In the absence of disorder, the ground state at partial Landau level filling is determined only by Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 A. A. Zibrov , E. M. Spanton , H. Zhou , C. Kometter , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , A. F. Young

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

Two-component fractional quantum Hall systems are providing a major motivation for a large section of the physics community. Here we study two-component fractional quantum Hall systems in the spin-polarized half-filled lowest Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Michael R. Peterson , Z. Papic , S. Das Sarma