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The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems under a magnetic field is one of the most remarkable discoveries in condensed matter physics. Interestingly, it has been proposed that FQHE can also…

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The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) stands as a quintessential manifestation of an interacting two-dimensional electron system. One of FQHE's most fundamental characteristics is the energy gap separating the incompressible ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 K. A. Villegas Rosales , P. T. Madathil , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

We consider a Laughlin droplet in a confining potential which is very steep but also weak compared to the ultra-short ranged inter-particle interactions. We find that the eigenstates have a Jack polynomial structure, and have an energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-24 Richard Fern , Steven H. Simon

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…

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We consider the dephasing rate of an electron level in a quantum dot, placed next to a fluctuating edge current in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Using perturbation theory, we show that this rate has an anomalous dependence on the bias…

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The observation of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in 2D electron gases ushered in investigations of topological phases driven by strong electron correlations. Their remarkable features include fractionalized elementary…

We theoretically examine entanglement in fractional quantum hall states, explicitly taking into account and emphasizing the quasi-two-dimensional nature of experimental quantum Hall systems. In particular, we study the entanglement entropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-07 J. Biddle , Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma

We analyse the inner products of edge state wavefunctions in the fractional quantum Hall effect, specifically for the Laughlin and Moore-Read states. We use an effective description for these inner products given by a large-$N$ expansion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-09 Richard Fern , Roberto Bondesan , Steven H. Simon

The description of chiral quantum incompressible fluids by the W-infinity symmetry can be extended from the edge, where it encompasses the conformal field theory approach, to the non-conformal bulk. The two regimes are characterized by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Andrea Cappelli , Lorenzo Maffi

By separating the Schr\"odinger equation for $N$ noninteracting spin-polarized fermions in two-dimensional hyperspherical coordinates, we demonstrate that fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states emerge naturally from degeneracy patterns of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-30 K. M. Daily , R. E. Wooten , Chris H. Greene

We present a numerical study of fractional quantum Hall liquid at Landau level filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in a microscopic model including long-range Coulomb interaction and edge confining potential, based on the disc geometry. We find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zi-Xiang Hu , Hua Chen , Kun Yang , E. H. Rezayi , Xin Wan

We investigate the ground state properties of fractional quantum Hall effect at the filling factor $\nu=2/3$ and $2+2/3$, with a special focus on their typical edge physics. Via topological characterization scheme in the framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-04 Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are strongly interacting electron systems with topological order. These systems are characterized by novel ground states, fractionally charged and neutral excitations. The neutral excitations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Ammar Kirmani , Benedikt Fauseweh , Jian-Xin Zhu

The quantum Hall effect (QHE) is theoretically understood as a superfluid condensate of composite bosons (CBs) -- bound states of electrons and magnetic flux quanta. While dissipationless transport is consistent with this picture, other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Yuanze Li , Renfei Wang , Jiahao Chen , Wenfeng Zhang , Adbhut Gupta , Kirk W. Baldwin , Loren Pfeiffer , Rui-Rui Du , Yang Liu , Tian Liang

In the extreme quantum limit, when the Landau level filling factor $\nu<1$, the dominant electron-electron interaction in low-disorder two-dimensional electron systems leads to exotic many-body phases. The ground states at even-denominator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Chengyu Wang , P. T. Madathil , S. K. Singh , A. Gupta , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

The understanding of particle entanglement is an important goal in the studies of correlated quantum matter. The widely-used method of scanning tunneling spectroscopy -- which measures the local density of states (LDOS) of a many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-30 Songyang Pu , Ajit C. Balram , Zlatko Papić

An effective Chern-Simons theory for the Abelian quantum Hall states with edges is proposed to study the edge and bulk properties in a unified fashion. We impose a condition that the currents do not flow outside the sample. With this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Naoto Nagaosa , Mahito Kohmoto

We study the edge--states excitations of a droplet of quantum Hall liquid embedded in an electron (Wigner) solid. The presence of strong correlations between the liquid and solid sectors in the ground state is shown to be reflected in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Milica Milovanovic , Efrat Shimshoni

We review the fermionic Chern-Simons field theory for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). We show that in this field theoretic approach to the problem of interacting electrons moving in a plane in the presence of an external magnetic…

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