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We use the dynamical structure factors of the quantum Hall states at $\nu=1/3$ and $\nu=1/2$ in the lowest Landau level to study their excitation spectrum. Using the density matrix renormalization group in combination with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Prashant Kumar , F. D. M. Haldane

Stacked two dimensional electron systems in transverse magnetic fields exhibit three dimensional fractional quantum Hall phases. We analyze the simplest such phases and find novel bulk properties, e.g., irrational braiding. These phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. D. Naud , Leonid P. Pryadko , S. L. Sondhi

Since the ground-breaking discovery of the quantum Hall effect, half-quantized quantum Hall plateaus have been some of the most studied and sought-after states. Their importance stems not only from the fact that they transcend the composite…

With the recent observation of graphene-like Landau levels at the surface of topological insulators, the possibility of fractional quantum Hall effect, which is a fundamental signature of strong correlations, has become of interest. Some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Ashley M. DaSilva

The activation gap Delta of the fractional quantum Hall state at constant filling n =1/3 is measured in wide range of perpendicular magnetic field B. Despite the full spin polarization of the incompressible ground state, we observe a sharp…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. F. Dethlefsen , E. Mariani , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , R. J. Haug

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

We present a Landau-Ginzburg theory for a fractional quantized Hall nematic state and the transition to it from an isotropic fractional quantum Hall state. This justifies Lifshitz-Chern-Simons theory -- which is shown to be its dual -- on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael Mulligan , Chetan Nayak , Shamit Kachru

Interesting non-Abelian states, e.g., the Moore-Read Pfaffian and the anti-Pfaffian, offer candidate descriptions of the $\nu = 5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state. But the significant controversy surrounding the nature of the $\nu = 5/2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-16 Kiryl Pakrouski , Michael R. Peterson , Thierry Jolicoeur , Vito W. Scarola , Chetan Nayak , Matthias Troyer

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is reported in a high mobility CdTe quantum well at mK temperatures. Fully-developed FQH states are observed at filling factor 4/3 and 5/3 and are found to be both spin-polarized ground state for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-16 B. A. Piot , J. Kunc , M. Potemski , D. K. Maude , C. Betthausen , A. Vogl , D. Weiss , G. Karczewski , T. Wojtowicz

We study the $\nu={\pm}1/2$ fractional quantum Hall states in graphene observed by Zibrov et al. [Nat. Phys. 14, 930 (2018)]. The parton construction is employed to provide a valley unpolarized trial wave function for these states. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-19 Ying-Hai Wu

We discuss quantum Hall effect in the presence of arbitrary pair interactions between electrons. It is shown that irrespective of the interaction strength the Hall conductivity is given by the filling fraction of Landau levels averaged over…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Xi Wu , M. A. Zubkov

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect at the filling factor $\nu=5/2$ was discovered in GaAs heterostructures more than 35 years ago. Various topological orders have been proposed as possible candidates to describe this FQH state. Some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Ken K. W. Ma , Michael R. Peterson , V. W. Scarola , Kun Yang

We present a quantitative study of most prominent incompressible quantum Hall states in the partially filled first excited Landau level (LL1) which have been recently studied experimentally by Choi et al. The pseudopotential describing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 George E. Simion , John J. Quinn

We study theoretically the dispersion of a single quasiparticle or quasihole of the fractional quantum Hall effect, obtained by injecting or removing a composite fermion. By comparing to a free fermion system, we estimate the regime of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sudhansu S. Mandal , J. K. Jain

We develop a microscopic formalism to study the fractional quantum Hall plateaus at filling factors $\nu $ away from $1/2\beta$ $\beta$ an integer. The theory is in terms of quasiparticles which carry a charge $e^{\ast}$ equal to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Pasquier

The parton theory constructs candidate fractional quantum Hall states by decomposing the physical particles into unphysical partons, placing the partons in integer quantum Hall states, and then gluing the partons back into the physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-13 Koji Kudo , Jonathan Schirmer , Jainendra K. Jain

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 fractional quantum Hall effect has been considered as a puzzling quantum many-body phenomenon that has yet to be fully explained. The plateau width and excitation energy gap are particularly problematic. We report here that those two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Jongbae Hong

We construct a class of 2+1 dimensional relativistic quantum field theories which exhibit the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in the infrared, both in the continuum and on the lattice. The UV completion consists of a perturbative $U(1)\times…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-08 David B. Kaplan , Srimoyee Sen

We investigate the 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state with one and two quasiparticle excitations. It is shown that the quasiparticle excitations are best described as excited composite fermions occupying higher composite-fermion quasi-Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Gun Sang Jeon , Jainendra K. Jain