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Quantum Hall states - the progenitors of the growing family of topological insulators -- are rich source of exotic quantum phases. The nature of these states is reflected in the gapless edge modes, which in turn can be classified as integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Bivas Dutta , Wenmin Yang , Ron Aharon Melcer , Hemanta Kumar Kundu , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern , David Mross

Quantum Hall edge states in proximity to a superconductor (SC) usually acquire a non-quantized electron-to-hole conversion probability in transport, due to non-universal SC couplings and disorders. With counter-propagating modes, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Pok Man Tam , Hao Chen , Biao Lian

In fractional quantum Hall systems, quasiparticles of fractional charge can tunnel between the edges at a quantum point contact. Such tunneling (or backscattering) processes contribute to charge transport, and provide information on both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-04 Hua Chen , Zi-Xiang Hu , Kun Yang , E. H. Rezayi , Xin Wan

Two-terminal conductance quantization in the context of quantum Hall (QH) physics is intimately related to the current carried by a discrete number of chiral edge modes. Upon pinching off a QH bar, one may engineer setups where some modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Sourav Manna , Ankur Das , Yuval Gefen , Moshe Goldstein

Shot noise measurements were recently exploited to measure the charge of the quasiparticles in the Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) regime. For fractional filling factors nu=1/3 and 2/5 of the first Landau level, fractional charges q=e/3 and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Comforti , Y. C. Chung , M. Heiblum , V. Umansky , D. Mahalu

Quantum Hall edge channels partition electric charge over N chiral (uni-directional) modes. Intermode scattering leads to partition noise, observed in graphene p-n junctions. While inelastic scattering suppresses this noise by averaging out…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 C. W. J. Beenakker

It is well-known that the 2/5 state is unpolarized at zero Zeeman energy, while it is fully polarized at large Zeeman energies. A novel state with charge/spin density wave order for Composite Fermions is proposed to exist at intermediate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ganpathy Murthy

A theoretical calculation is presented of current noise which is due charge fractionalization, in two interacting edge channels in the integer quantum Hall state at filling factor $\nu=2$. Because of the capacitive coupling between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Izhar Neder

Motivated by recent observations of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in the vicinity of superconducting (SC) phases, we study fractional quantum (anomalous) Hall-superconductor heterostructures in the presence of $U(1)$ order-parameter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-31 Steffen Bollmann , Andreas Haller , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Thomas L. Schmidt , Elio J. König

The edge structure of the $\nu=2/3$ fractional quantum Hall state has been studied for several decades but recent experiments, exhibiting upstream neutral mode(s), a plateau at a Hall conductance of $\frac{1}{3}( e^2/h)$ through a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-24 Jianhui Wang , Yigal Meir , Yuval Gefen

The effect of an ac perturbation on the shot noise of a fractional quantum Hall fluid is studied at finite temperature. For a normal metal, it is known that the zero-frequency noise derivative exhibits steps as a function of bias voltage.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adeline Crepieux , Pierre Devillard , Thierry Martin

We report the observation of developing fractional quantum Hall states at Landau level filling factors $\nu = 1/2$ and 1/4 in electron systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells with significantly $asymmetric$ charge distributions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Shabani , T. Gokmen , Y. T. Chiu , M. Shayegan

A central long standing prediction of the theory of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states that it is a topological fluid whose elementary excitations are vortices with fractional charge and fractional statistics. Yet, the unambiguous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eun-Ah Kim , Michael J. Lawler , Smitha Vishveshwara , Eduardo Fradkin

We construct a wavefunction, generalizing the well known Moore-Read Pfaffian, that describes spinless electrons at filling fraction nu=2/5 (or bosons at filling fraction nu=2/3) as the ground state of a very simple three body potential. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Steven H. Simon , E. H. Rezayi , N. R. Cooper , I. Berdnikov

Electrons in two dimensions and strong magnetic fields effectively lose their kinetic energy and display exotic behavior dominated by Coulomb forces. When the ratio of electrons to magnetic flux quanta in the system is near 5/2, the unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vivek Venkatachalam , Amir Yacoby , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West

We study the nature of the \nu=5/2 quantum Hall state in wide quantum wells under the mixing of electronic subbands and Landau levels. We introduce a general method to analyze the Moore-Read Pfaffian state and its particle-hole conjugate,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-07 Z. Papic , F. D. M. Haldane , E. H. Rezayi

We study non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall state in double layer systems at total filling factor $1/2$. Recent progresses in two-dimensional van der Waals materials made it possible to explore the regime with very small interlayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-24 Xiang-Jian Hou , Lei Wang , Ying-Hai Wu

Fractional quantum Hall states in bilayer system at total filling fraction $\nu=1/2$ are examined numerically under some ranges of the layer separation and interlayer tunneling. It is shown that the ground state changes continuously from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-23 Kentaro Nomura , Daijiro Yoshioka

Even though composite fermions in the fractional quantum Hall liquid are well established, it is not yet known up to what energies they remain intact. We probe the high-energy spectrum of the 1/3 liquid directly by resonant inelastic light…

A composite fermion edge state theory of current fluctuations, fractional quasiparticle charge and Johnson-Nyquist noise in the fractional quantum Hall regime is presented. It is shown that composite fermion current fluctuations and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 George Kirczenow