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Spin splitting in the integer quantum Hall effect is investigated for a series of Al$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As/GaAs heterojunctions and quantum wells. Magnetoresistance measurements are performed at mK temperature to characterize the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. A. Piot , D. K. Maude , M. Henini , Z. R. Wasilewski , K. J. Friedland , R. Hey , K. H. Ploog , A. I. Toropov , R. Airey , G. Hill

We reduce the problem of integer quantum Hall transition to a random rotation of an N-dimensional vector by an su(N) algebra, where only N specially selected generators of the algebra are nonzero. The group-theoretical structure revealed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Boldyrev , V. Gurarie

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect arises from strong electron correlations in a quantising magnetic field, and features exotic emergent phenomena such as electron fractionalisation. Using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Ben Currie , Evgeny Kozik

The nature of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states is determined by the interplay between the Coulomb interaction and the symmetries of the system. The unique combination of spin, valley, and orbital degeneracies in bilayer graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Angela Kou , Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Bertrand I. Halperin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amir Yacoby

We report on numerical studies into the interplay of disorder and electron-electron interactions within the integer quantum Hall regime, where the presence of a strong magnetic field and two-dimensional confinement of the electronic system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-23 R. A. Römer , C. Sohrmann

Hall coefficient implies the mechanism for reconstruction of a Fermi surface, distinguishing competing scenarios for Mott criticality such as electron fractionalization, dynamical mean-field theory, and metal-insulator transition driven by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Ki-Seok Kim

The quantum Hall liquid is a novel state of matter with profound emergent properties such as fractional charge and statistics. Existence of the quantum Hall effect requires breaking of the time reversal symmetry caused by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We directly measure the chemical potential jump in the low-temperature limit when the filling factor traverses the nu = 1/3 and nu = 2/5 fractional gaps in two-dimensional (2D) electron system in GaAs/AlGaAs single heterojunctions. In high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-15 V. S. Khrapai , A. A. Shashkin , M. G. Trokina , V. T. Dolgopolov , V. Pellegrini , F. Beltram , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba

The fundamental collective degree of freedom of fractional quantum Hall states is identified as a unimodular two-dimensional spatial metric that characterizes the local shape of the correlations of the incompressible fluid. Its quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 F. D. M. Haldane

We numerically investigate the effect of electron correlation on the integer quantum Hall effect in a square lattice. Increasing the correlation strength via the effective onsite repulsion parameter $U$ degrades the quantization of $\nu =…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-26 Daniel Staros , Christopher Lane , Roxanne Tutchton , Jian-Xin Zhu

The integer quantum Hall effect is a topological state of quantum matter in two dimensions, and has recently been observed in three-dimensional topological insulator thin films. Here we study the Landau levels and edge states of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Song-Bo Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We present a microscopic theory for the recently observed reentrant integral quantum Hall effect in the n=1 and n=2 Landau levels. Our energy investigations indicate an alternating sequence of M-electron-bubble and quantum-liquid ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Goerbig , P. Lederer , C. Morais Smith

An existence theory is established for a coupled non-linear elliptic system, known as "vortex equations", describing the fractional quantum Hall effect in 2-dimensional double-layered electron systems. Via variational methods, we prove the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Luciano Medina

We construct an effective conformal field theory by using a procedure which induces twisted boundary conditions for the fundamental scalar fields. That allows to describe a quantum Hall fluid at Jain hierarchical filling, nu=m/(2pm+1), in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Cristofano , G. Maiella , V. Marotta

We quantum mechanically analyze the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene. This will be done by building the corresponding states in terms of a potential governing the interactions and discussing other issues. More precisely, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Ahmed Jellal , Bellati Malika

We address two fundamental issues in the physics of the quantum Hall effect: a unified description of scaling behavior of conductances in the integral and fractional regimes, and a quasi-particle formulation of the chiral Luttinger Liquids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 A. M. M. Pruisken , K. Schoutens

We study the tunneling between two quantum Hall systems, along a quasi one-dimensional interface. A detailed analysis relates microscopic parameters, characterizing the potential barrier, with the effective field theory model for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 D. G. Barci , L. Moriconi

In this letter, we discuss the recently proposed fractional quantum Hall effect in the absence of Landau levels. It is shown that the parton construction can explain all properties of 1/3 state, including the effective charge of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-03 Abolhassan Vaezi

The interplay between interaction and disorder-induced localization is of fundamental interest. This article addresses localization physics in the fractional quantum Hall state, where both interaction and disorder have nonperturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Songyang Pu , G. J. Sreejith , J. K. Jain

We find a quantum group structure in two-dimensional motions of a nonrelativistic electron in a uniform magnetic field and in a periodic potential. The representation basis of the quantum algebra is composed of wavefunctions of the system.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 H. -T. Sato