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We study the edge-mode excitations of a fractional quantum Hall droplet by expressing the edge state wavefunctions as linear combinations of Jack polynomials with a negative parameter. We show that the exact diagonalization within subspace…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-30 Ki Hoon Lee , Zi-Xiang Hu , Xin Wan

The low energy physics of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states -- a paradigm of strongly correlated topological phases of matter -- to a large extent is captured by weakly interacting quasiparticles known as composite fermions (CFs). In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-13 Ajit C. Balram , Zhao Liu , Andrey Gromov , Zlatko Papić

Using a tilted field geometry, the effect of an in-plane magnetic field on the even denominator nu = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state is studied. The energy gap of the nu = 5/2 state is found to collapse linearly with the in-plane magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 C. R. Dean , B. A. Piot , P. Hayden , S. Das Sarma , G. Gervais , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Model wave functions are essential for studying fractional quantum Hall phases, yet lattice model states have so far been limited to bosonic systems with on-site interactions. In this work, by combining analytical and numerical methods, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Guangyue Ji , Jie Wang

We generalize the fractional quantum Hall hierarchy picture to apply to arbitrary, possibly non-Abelian, fractional quantum Hall states. Applying this to the nu = 5/2 Moore-Read state, we construct new explicit trial wavefunctions to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 Parsa Bonderson , J. K. Slingerland

The projective construction is a powerful approach to deriving the bulk and edge field theories of non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and yields an understanding of non-Abelian FQH states in terms of the simpler integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-08 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Gang Wen

Evidence for developing fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at filling fraction $\nu{=}1/6$ and $1/8$ has recently been reported in wide GaAs quantum wells [Wang \emph{et al.}, PRL {\bf 134}, 046502 (2025)]. In this article, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ajit C. Balram , Anirban Sharma , J. K. Jain

Interacting electrons in a semiconductor quantum dot at strong magnetic fields exhibit a rich set of states, including correlated quantum fluids and crystallites of various symmetries. We develop in this paper a perturbative scheme based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gun Sang Jeon , Chia-Chen Chang , Jainendra K. Jain

The excitations of the 7/3 fractional Hall state, one of the most prominent states in the second Landau level, are not understood. We study the effect of screening by composite fermion excitons and find that it causes a strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-05 Ajit C. Balram , Ying-Hai Wu , G. J. Sreejith , Arkadiusz Wójs , Jainendra K. Jain

One of the most spectacular experimental findings in the fractional quantum Hall effect is evidence for an emergent Fermi surface when the electron density is nearly half the density of magnetic flux quanta ($\nu = 1/2$). The seminal work…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-14 Scott D. Geraedts , Michael P. Zaletel , Roger S. K. Mong , Max A. Metlitski , Ashvin Vishwanath , Olexei I. Motrunich

The quantum Hall superfluid is presently the only viable candidate for a realization of quasiparticles with fractional Berry phase statistics. For a simple vortex excitation, relevant for a subset of fractional Hall states considered by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gun Sang Jeon , Kenneth L. Graham , Jainendra K. Jain

We comprehensively show the topological structure--order of zeros felt by an electron at the positions of other electrons --for the enigmatic filling factor 5/2 at the "Pfaffian-shift" in a spherical geometry. A set of linearly independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 Sutirtha Mukherjee , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We find that for the pure Coulomb repulsion the composite Fermi sea at $\nu=1/2$ is on the verge of an instability to triplet pairing of composite fermions. It is argued that a transition into the paired state, described by a Pfaffian wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Park , V. Melik-Alaverdian , N. E. Bonesteel , J. K. Jain

It was recently discovered that fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states can be classified by the way ground state wave functions go to zero when electrons are brought close together. Quasiparticles in the FQH states can be classified in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Gang Wen

The Moore-Read Pfaffian (Pf) state exhibits two distinct neutral excitation modes, the bosonic magnetoroton mode, and the neutral fermion mode. These two modes have been conjectured to be supersymmetric (SUSY) partners in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-30 Koyena Bose , Ajit C. Balram

The energy gaps for the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling fractions 1/3, 1/5, and 1/7 have been calculated by variational Monte Carlo using Jain's composite fermion wave functions before and after projection onto the lowest Landau…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. E. Bonesteel

We investigate the structure of gapless edge modes propagating at the boundary of some fractional quantum Hall states. We show how to deduce explicit trial wavefunctions from the knowledge of the effective theory governing the edge modes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 M. V. Milovanović , Th. Jolicœur

The moir\'e system provides a tunable platform for exploring exotic phases of materials. This article shows the possible realization of a non-Abelian state characterized by the Moore-Read wavefunction in a half-filled moir\'e Chern band,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-19 Lu Zhang , Xue-Yang Song

The Hilbert spaces of the edge excitations of several ``paired'' fractional quantum Hall states, namely the Pfaffian, Haldane-Rezayi and 331 states, are constructed and the states at each angular momentum level are enumerated. The method is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-19 M. Milovanovic , N. Read

Exact diagonalization studies have revealed that the energy spectrum of interacting electrons in the lowest Landau level splits, non-perturbatively, into bands, which is responsible for the fascinating phenomenology of this system. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-02 Ajit C. Balram , Arkadiusz Wójs , Jainendra K. Jain