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In the composite fermion model of the fractional quantum Hall effect, composite fermions experience, in addition to the usual potential disorder, also a magnetic flux disorder. Motivated by this, we investigate the localization properties…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 X. C. Xie , D. Z. Liu , J. K. Jain

We obtain a ``mean field'' scaling flow of the longitudinal and the Hall conductivities in the fractional quantum Hall regime. Using the composite fermion picture and assuming that the composite fermions follow the Khmelnitskii-Pruisken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Hae-Young Kee , Yong Baek Kim , Elihu Abrahams , R. N. Bhatt

We study three prominent diagnostics of chaos and scrambling in the context of two-dimensional conformal field theory: the spectral form factor, out-of-time-ordered correlators, and unitary operator entanglement. With the observation that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-19 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Laimei Nie , Shinsei Ryu

As a model for the transitions between plateaus in the fractional Quantum Hall effect we study the critical behavior of non-interacting charged particles in a static random magnetic field with finite mean value. We argue that this model…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Bodo Huckestein

The transition from the quantum Hall state to the insulator is considered for non-interacting electrons in a two-dimensional disordered lattice model with perpendicular magnetic field. Using correlated random disorder potentials the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Potempa , L. Schweitzer

We investigate universal features of measurement-and-feedback control of quantum chaotic dynamics by examining the quantum Arnold cat map, a paradigmatic model of quantum chaos. Inspired by probabilistic control of classical chaos, our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Andrew A. Allocca , Devesh K. Verma , Sriram Ganeshan , Justin H. Wilson

We investigate the interplay of disorder and interaction in two-dimensional electron systems in a strong magnetic field, focusing on the transition between Wigner crystals and fractional quantum Hall liquids. We first study classical Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ke Huang , Sankar Das Sarma , Xiao Li

Low-energy magnon bands in a two-dimensional spin ice model become integer quantum magnon Hall bands. By calculating the localization length and the two-terminal conductance of magnon transport, we show that the magnon bands with disorders…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-21 Baolong Xu , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou

Understanding the continuum limit of a theory of discrete random geometries is a beautiful but difficult challenge. In this optic, we review here the insights that can be obtained for Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) by employing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Dario Benedetti

Control at the interface between the classical and the quantum world is fundamental in quantum physics. In particular, how classical control is enhanced by coherence effects is an important question both from a theoretical as well as from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 J. M. Matera , D. Egloff , N. Killoran , M. B. Plenio

We report results of a study of (integer) quantum Hall transitions in a single or multiple Landau levels for non-interacting electrons in disordered two-dimensional systems, obtained by projecting a tight-binding Hamiltonian to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. N. Bhatt , Xin Wan

We study a number of hierarchical network models related to the Chalker-Coddington model of quantum percolation. Our aim is to describe the physics of the quantum Hall transition. The hierarchical network models are constructed by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniel P. Arovas , Martin Janssen , Boris Shapiro

A quantum system can undergo a continuous phase transition at the absolute zero of temperature as some parameter entering its Hamiltonian is varied. These transitions are particularly interesting for, in contrast to their classical finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. L. Sondhi , S. M. Girvin , J. P. Carini , D. Shahar

It is widely held that disorder is essential to the existence of a finite interval of magnetic field in which the Hall conductance is quantized, i.e. for the existence of `plateaus' in the quantum Hall effect. Here, we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-20 Kyung-Su Kim , Steven A. Kivelson

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, a lattice analogue of fractional quantum Hall effect, offers a unique pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum computation and deep insights into the interplay of topology and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

We study the consequences of random mass, random scalar potential and random vector potential on the line of clean fixed points between integer/fractional quantum Hall states and an insulator. This line of fixed points was first identified…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jinwu Ye

The rigidity transition occurs when, as the density of microscopic components is increased, a disordered medium becomes able to transmit and ensure macroscopic mechanical stability, owing to the appearance of a space-spanning rigid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-12 Nina Javerzat , Mehdi Bouzid

In this work, the term ``quantum chaos'' refers to spectral correlations similar to those found in the random matrix theory. Quantum chaos can be diagnosed through the analysis of level statistics using e.g.~the spectral form factor, which…

The entanglement entropy of the $\nu = 1/3$ and $\nu = 5/2$ quantum Hall states in the presence of short range random disorder has been calculated by direct diagonalization. A microscopic model of electron-electron interaction is used,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 B. A. Friedman , G. C. Levine , D. Luna

Quantum error correction (QEC) is a key concept in quantum computation as well as many areas of physics. There are fundamental tensions between continuous symmetries and QEC. One vital situation is unfolded by the Eastin--Knill theorem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Zi-Wen Liu , Sisi Zhou