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Owing to the spin, valley, and orbital symmetries, the lowest Landau level (LL) in bilayer graphene exhibits multicomponent quantum Hall ferromagnetism. Using transport spectroscopy, we investigate the energy gaps of integer and fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Yanmeng Shi , Yongjin Lee , Shi Che , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Petr Stepanov , Dmitry Smirnov , Chun Ning Lau , Fan Zhang

We have investigated the fractional quantum Hall states for the Dirac electrons in a graphene layer in different Landau levels. The relativistic nature of the energy dispersion relation of the electrons in the graphene significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

The $\nu=5/2$ fractional quantum Hall effect is a system of intense experimental and theoretical interest as its ground state may host non-abelian excitations, but the exact nature of the ground state is still undetermined. We present the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anthony Tylan-Tyler , Yuli Lyanda-Geller

We analyze the phase diagram of the zeroth Landau level of bilayer graphene, taking into account the realistic effects of screening of the Coulomb interaction and the strong mixing between two degenerate sublevels. We identify robust…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Z. Papić , D. A. Abanin

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is a canonical example of electron-electron interactions producing new ground states in many-body systems. Most FQH studies have focused on the lowest Landau level (LL), whose fractional states are…

Quantum Hall plateaus at quarter fillings occur in GaAs wide quantum wells, hole-doped GaAs, and bilayer graphene. However, the interactions favoring incompressible states over compressible composite-Fermi liquids at such fillings are not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-09 Misha Yutushui , David F. Mross

We show through both theoretical arguments and numerical calculations that graphene discerns an unconventional sequence of quantized Hall conductivity, when subject to both magnetic fields (B) and strain. The latter produces time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Bitan Roy , Zi-Xiang Hu , Kun Yang

We obtain analytical expressions for the eigenstates and the Landau level spectrum of biased graphene bilayers in a magnetic field. The calculations are performed in the context of a four-band continuum model and generalize previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 J. Milton Pereira , F. M. Peeters , P. Vasilopoulos

The quantum Hall effect near the charge neutrality point in bilayer graphene is investigated in high magnetic fields of up to 35 T using electronic transport measurements. In the high field regime, the eight-fold degeneracy in the zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Zhao , P. Cadden-Zimansky , Z. Jiang , P. Kim

We describe the gated bilayer graphene system when it is subjected to intense terahertz frequency electromagnetic radiation. We examine the electron band structure and density of states via exact diagonalization methods within Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

We construct an effective Hamiltonian for electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime for GaAs and graphene that takes into account Landau level mixing (for both GaAs and graphene) and subband mixing (for GaAs, due to the nonzero width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-03 Michael R. Peterson , Chetan Nayak

The current proposals for producing non-Abelian anyons and Majorana particles, which are neither fermions nor bosons, are primarily based on the realization of topological superconductivity in two dimensions. We show theoretically that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-11 Ying-Hai Wu , Tao Shi , Jainendra K. Jain

Nature of the fractional quantum Hall state at Landau level filling factor 5/2 remains elusive despite intensive experimental and theoretical work. While the leading theoretical candidates are Moore-Read Pfaffian (Pf) and its particle-hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Xin Wan , Kun Yang

We investigate numerically different phases that can occur at half filling in the lowest and the first excited Landau levels in wide-well twodimensional electron systems exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. Within a twocomponent model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 N. Thiebaut , N. Regnault , M. O. Goerbig

We report experimental observation of the reentrant integer quantum Hall effect in graphene, appearing in the N$=$2 Landau level. Similar to high-mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures, the effect is due to a competition between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Shaowen Chen , Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau , Kang Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Mark O. Goerbig , Cory R. Dean

Here we report from our theoretical studies that in biased bilayer graphene, one can induce phase transitions from an incompressible fractional quantum Hall state to a compressible state by tuning the bandgap at a given electron density.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-26 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

The most celebrated property of the quantum spin Hall effect is the presence of spin-polarized counter-propagating edge states. This novel edge state configuration has also been predicted to occur in graphene when spin-split electron- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Patrick Maher , Cory R. Dean , Andrea F. Young , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kenneth L. Shepard , James Hone , Philip Kim

We review the theoretical basis and understanding of electronic interactions in graphene Landau levels, in the limit of strong correlations. This limit occurs when inter-Landau-level excitations may be omitted because they belong to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault

We propose a model of spin-polarized-current state for electrons in bilayer graphene. The model resolves the puzzles as revealed by experiments that (a) the energy gap $E_{\rm gap}$ of the insulating ground state at the charge neutrality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-14 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We derive an effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian to describe the low energy electronic excitations of a graphite bilayer, which correspond to chiral quasiparticles with a parabolic dispersion exhibiting Berry phase $2\pi$. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko