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We study a bilayer GaAs hole system that hosts two distinct many-body phases at low temperatures and high perpendicular magnetic fields. The higher-density (top) layer develops a Fermi sea of composite fermions (CFs) in its half-filled…
Recent experimental observations of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in spin/valley polarized moir\'{e} systems call for a more expansive theoretical exploration of strongly correlated physics in partially filled topological…
It is demonstrated that all observed fractions at moderate Landau level fillings in the quantum Hall effect can be obtained without recourse to the phenomenological concept of composite fermions. The possibility to have the special…
The quantum Hall effect in ultra-high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs has been measured and plateaus are found at many different fractions. The resistivity is quantized as \rho =h/ie^2 where i exhibits many different values. The fractions 5/3, 8/5,…
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We report magneto-transport measurements in wide GaAs quantum wells with tunable density to probe the stability of the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factor $\nu = $ 5/2 in the vicinity of the crossing between Landau levels (LLs)…
The Halperin-Lee-Read Fermi sea of composite fermions (CFs) at half-filled lowest Landau level is the realization of a fascinating non-Fermi liquid metallic phase. Remarkably, experiments have found that as the width of the quantum well is…
Starting from the edge reconstructed Pfaffian state and the anti-Pfaffian state for the filling fraction $\nu={5/2}$ fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state with the filled Landau levels included, we find that interactions between…
Half-filled Landau levels admit the theoretically powerful fermion-vortex duality but longstanding puzzles remain in their experimental realization as $\nu_T=1$ quantum Hall bilayers, further complicated by Zheng et al's recent numerical…
We discuss the composite fermion pairing state in bilayer quantum Hall systems. After the evaluation of the range of the inter-layer separation in which the quantum Hall state is stabilized, we discuss the effect of inter-layer tunneling on…
We report on our theoretical investigations that point to the possibility of a fractional quantum Hall effect with partial spin polarization at $\nu=3/8$. The physics of the incompressible state proposed here involves p-wave pairing of…
The composite fermion (CF) theory gives both a phenomenological description for many fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, as well as a microscopic construction for large scale numerical calculation of these topological phases. The…
It has been well-known that topological phenomena with fractional excitations, i.e., the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) \cite{Tsui1982} will emerge when electrons move in Landau levels. In this letter, we report the discovery of the…
A bilayer electron system in a strong magnetic field at low temperatures, with total Landau level filling factor nu =1, can enter a strongly coupled phase, known as the (111) phase or the quantum Hall pseudospin-ferromagnet. In this phase…
We consider the pairing of electrons and holes due to their Coulomb attraction in two parallel, independently gated graphene layers, separated by a barrier. At weak coupling, there exist the BCS-like pair-condensed state. Despite the fact…
The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the filling factor with an even denominator, 5/2, occurs despite the expectation, due to the electron statistics, that the denominator must be an odd number. It is believed that the Cooper…
Topological states of matter, such as fractional quantum Hall states, are an active field of research due to their exotic excitations. In particular, ultracold atoms in optical lattices provide a highly controllable and adaptable platform…