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Quantum Hall states at filling fraction $\nu$=5/2 are examined by numerical diagonalization. Spin-polarized and -unpolarized states of systems with $N\le 18$ electrons are studied, neglecting effects of Landau level mixing. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rudolf H. Morf

The quasiholes of the Read-Rezayi clustered quantum Hall states are considered, for any number of particles and quasiholes on a sphere, and for any degree k of clustering. A set of trial wavefunctions, that are zero-energy eigenstates of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Read

We propose field theories for the bulk and edge of a quantum Hall state in the universality class of the Haldane-Rezayi wavefunction. The bulk theory is associated with the $c=-2$ conformal field theory. The topological properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Gurarie , M. Flohr , C. Nayak

The Landau level mixing is the key in understanding the mysterious $5/2$ fractional quantum Hall effect in GaAs quantum well. Theoretical calculations with and without Landau level mixing show striking differences. However, the way to deal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-08 Wenchen Luo , Muaath Abdulwahab , Xiang Liu , Hao Wang

The purpose of these lectures is to describe the basic theoretical structures underlying the rich and beautiful physics of the quantum Hall effect. The focus is on the interplay between microscopic wavefunctions, long-distance effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 David Tong

The topological morphology--order of zeros at the positions of electrons with respect to a specific electron--of Laughlin state at filling fractions $1/m$ ($m$ odd) is homogeneous as every electron feels zeros of order $m$ at the positions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-08 Sutirtha Mukherjee , Sudhansu S Mandal

We consider a two dimensional (2D) model of particles interacting in a Landau level. We work in a finite disk geometry and take the particles to interact with a linearly decreasing two-body Haldane pseudo-potential. We show that the ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-21 Yahya Alavirad

We briefly summarize properties of quantum Hall states with a pairing or clustering property. Their study employs a fundamental connection with parafermionic Conformal Field Theories. We report on closed form expressions for the many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Schoutens , E. Ardonne , F. J. M. van Lankvelt

We analyze tunneling of non-Abelian quasiparticles between the edges of a quantum Hall droplet at Landau level filling fraction nu=5/2, assuming that the electrons in the first excited Landau level organize themselves in the non-Abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul Fendley , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the second Landau level (SLL) likely stabilizes non-Abelian topological orders. Recently, a parton sequence has been proposed to capture many of the fractions observed in the SLL [Ajit C. Balram,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-12 Koyena Bose , Ajit C. Balram

We present model wavefunctions for quasielectron (as opposed to quasihole) excitations of the unitary $Z_k$ parafermion sequence (Laughlin/Moore-Read/Read-Rezayi) of Fractional Quantum Hall states. We uniquely define these states through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Andrei Bernevig , F. D. M. Haldane

Strong correlation brings a rich array of emergent phenomena, as well as a daunting challenge to theoretical physics study. In condensed matter physics, the fractional quantum Hall effect is a prominent example of strong correlation, with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-05 Yubing Qian , Tongzhou Zhao , Jianxiao Zhang , Tao Xiang , Xiang Li , Ji Chen

For certain measurements, the Corbino geometry has a distinct advantage over the Hall and van der Pauw geometries, in that it provides a direct probe of the bulk 2DEG without complications due to edge effects. This may be important in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 B. A. Schmidt , K. Bennaceur , S. Bilodeau , G. Gervais , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We define a measurable spin for the edge of a lowest Landau level and incompressible fractional quantum Hall state in the presence of an Abelian or non-Abelian bulk quasiparticle. We show that this quantity takes a fractional value…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-08 Alexander Fagerlund , Alberto Nardin , Leonardo Mazza , Eddy Ardonne

The entanglement entropy of the incompressible states of a realistic quantum Hall system are studied by direct diagonalization. The subdominant term to the area law, the topological entanglement entropy, which is believed to carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 B. A. Friedman , G. C. Levine

We consider spin-polarized electrons in a single Landau level on a torus. The quantum Hall problem is mapped onto a one-dimensional lattice model with lattice constant $2\pi/L_1$, where $L_1$ is a circumference of the torus (in units of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-09 E. J. Bergholtz , A. Karlhede

The even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) in half-filled Landau levels are generally believed to host non-Abelian quasiparticles and be of potential use in topological quantum computing. Of particular interest is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Chengyu Wang , A. Gupta , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

Fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) at even-denominator Landau level filling factors ($\nu$) are of prime interest as they are predicted to host exotic, topological states of matter. We report here the observation of a FQHS at $\nu=1/2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Md. Shafayat Hossain , M. K. Ma , Y. J. Chung , S. K. Singh , A. Gupta , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

We study the quantum Hall states that appear in the dilute limit of rotating ultracold fermionic gases when a single hyperfine species is present. We show that the p-wave scattering translates into a pure hard-core interaction in the lowest…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Thierry Jolicoeur , Nicolas Regnault

We study a quantum point contact in the fractional quantum Hall regime at Landau level filling factors 1/3 and 5/2. By using exact diagonalizations in the cylinder geometry we identify the edge modes in the presence of a parabolic confining…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Paul Soulé , Thierry Jolicoeur , Philippe Lecheminant