English
Related papers

Related papers: A Stable Pfaffian State in Bilayer Graphene

200 papers

We numerically study a 5/2 fractional quantum Hall system with even number of electrons using the exact diagonalization where both the strong Landau level (LL) mixing and a finite width of the quantum well have been considered and adapted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Wenchen Luo , Wei Zhang , Yutao Hu , Hao Wang

Bernal bilayer graphene hosts even denominator fractional quantum Hall states thought to be described by a Pfaffian wave function with nonabelian quasiparticle excitations. Here we report the quantitative determination of fractional quantum…

The quantum Hall phase diagram of the half-filled bilayer system in the second Landau level is studied as a function of tunneling and layer separation using exact diagonalization. We make the striking prediction that bilayer structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma

Bilayer graphene exhibits a rich phase diagram in the quantum Hall regime, arising from a multitude of internal degrees of freedom, including spin, valley, and orbital indices. The variety of fractional quantum Hall states between filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Udit Khanna , Ke Huang , Ganpathy Murthy , H. A. Fertig , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jun Zhu , Efrat Shimshoni

We consider graphene bilayer in a constant magnetic field of arbitrary orientation (i.e. tilted with respect to the graphene plane). In the low energy approximation to tight binding model with Peierls substitution, we find the exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-04 Young-Hwan Hyun , Yoonbai Kim , Corneliu Sochichiu , Min-Young Choi

A two-dimensional electron system placed in a magnetic field develops Landau levels, where strong Coulomb interactions lead to the appearance of many-body correlated ground states. Quantum numbers similar to the electron spin enable the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Ke Huang , Hailong Fu , Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey , Nasim Alem , Xi Lin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jun Zhu

We study the low energy edge states of bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. Several possible simple boundaries geometries related to zigzag edges are considered. Tight-binding calculations reveal three types of edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Victoria Mazo , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert A. Fertig

Strong interaction between electrons in two-dimensional systems in the presence of a high magnetic field gives rise to fractional quantum Hall states that host quasiparticles with fractional charge and fractional exchange statistics. Here,…

The phase diagram of an interacting two-dimensional electron system in a high magnetic field is enriched by the varying form of the effective Coulomb interaction, which depends strongly on the Landau level index. While the fractional…

We introduce a novel two-dimensional electronic system with ultrastrong interlayer interactions, namely twisted bilayer graphene with a large twist angle, as an ideal ground for realizing interlayer-coherent excitonic condensates. In these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Dohun Kim , Byungmin Kang , Yong-Bin Choi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

Graphene and its multilayers have attracted considerable interest owing to the fourfold spin and valley degeneracy of their charge carriers, which enables the formation of a rich variety of broken-symmetry states and raises the prospect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Benjamin Krauss , Dmitry Abanin , Bertrand. I. Halperin , Jurgen H. Smet , Amir Yacoby

We discuss monolayer and bilayer quantum Hall systems in which each layer is a half-filled Landau level (LL) system. In the mean field approximation of the Son's formalism there is a common pairing structure that underlines the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-28 M. V. Milovanović

Bilayer graphene in a magnetic field hosts a variety of ordered phases built from eight Landau levels close in energy to the neutrality point. These levels are characterized by orbital $n=0,1$, valley $\xi=+,-$ and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-25 Brett R. Green , Jorge O. Sofo

We propose a new system where electron and hole states are electrostatically confined into a quantum ring in bilayer graphene. These structures can be created by tuning the gap of the graphene bilayer using nanostructured gates or by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Zarenia , J. M. Pereira , F. M. Peeters , G. A. Farias

We examine the quantum phase diagram of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the lowest two Landau levels in half-filled bilayer structures as a function of tunneling strength and layer separation, i.e., we revisit the lowest Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-06 Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma

Recent experimental advances in the reconstruction of the Wigner function (WF) for electronic systems have led us to consider the possibility of employing this theoretical tool in the analysis of electron dynamics of uniaxially strained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 Erik Díaz-Bautista , Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo

Interaction driven integer quantum Hall effects are anticipated in graphene bilayers because of the near-degeneracy of the eight Landau levels which appear near the neutral system Fermi level. We predict that an intra-Landau-level cyclotron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-31 Yafis Barlas , R. Cote , K. Nomura , A. H. MacDonald

Possible phase transitions between incompressible quantum Hall states and compressible three-dimensional states are discussed for infinite-layer electron systems in strong magnetic field. By variational Monte Carlo calculation, relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sei Suzuki , Yoshio Kuramoto

Interactions among electrons can give rise to striking collective phenomena when the kinetic energy of charge carriers is suppressed. One example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, in which correlations between electrons moving in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Benjamin E. Feldman , Benjamin Krauss , Jurgen H. Smet , Amir Yacoby

We consider a number of strongly-correlated quantum Hall states which are likely to be realized in bilayer quantum Hall systems at total Landau level filling fraction ${\nu_T}=1$. One state, the $(3,3,-1)$ state, can occur as an instability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong Baek Kim , Chetan Nayak , Eugene Demler , N. Read , S. Das Sarma