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The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is extensively studied, but the explanation for Hall plateau widths and excitation energy gaps remains elusive. We study the effective theory of FQHE built upon experimental inputs of Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Jongbae Hong , Soo-Jong Rey

Almost all quantum Hall effect to date can be understood as {\em integral} quantum Hall effect of appropriate particles, namely electrons or composite fermions. This paper investigates theoretically the feasibility of nested states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sudhansu S. Mandal , Jainendra K. Jain

Motivated by recent experiments that reveal expansive fractional quantum Hall states in the $n=1$ graphene Landau level and suggest a nontrivial role of the spin degree of freedom [Amet {\em et al.}, Nat. Common. {\bf 6}, 5838 (2014)], we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-20 Ajit C. Balram , Csaba Tőke , A. Wójs , J. K. Jain

We present an approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect observed in grapheme (GFQHE), basing us on the model developed previously for the fractional quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system embedded in a quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 M. A. Hidalgo

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 fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems is explained by the emergent composite fermions (CF) out of ordinary electrons. It is possible to write down explicit wavefunctions explaining many if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Thierry Jolicoeur

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the second Landau level (SLL) likely stabilizes non-Abelian topological orders. Recently, a parton sequence has been proposed to capture many of the fractions observed in the SLL [Ajit C. Balram,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-12 Koyena Bose , Ajit C. Balram

We have investigated the effect of unidirectional periodic potential modulation on the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states located within the filling factor range $1<\nu<2$. We find that odd-numerator FQH states are strongly suppressed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-01 A. Endo , N. Shibata , Y. Iye

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) of topological surface-state particles under a tilted strong magnetic field is theoretically studied by using the exact diagonalization method. The Haldane's pseudopotentials for the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fawei Zheng , Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang

We consider the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the filling factor $8/17$, where signatures of incompressibility have been observed in the zeroth Landau level of bilayer graphene. We propose an Abelian state described by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-27 Ajit C. Balram , Nicolas Regnault

A quantum statistical theory is developed for a fractional quantum Hall effects in terms of composite bosons (fermions) each of which contains a conduction electron and an odd (even) number of fluxons. The cause of the QHE is by assumption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Shigeji Fujita , Akira Suzuki , H. C. Ho

It has been well-known that topological phenomena with fractional excitations, i.e., the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) \cite{Tsui1982} will emerge when electrons move in Landau levels. In this letter, we report the discovery of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-13 D. N. Sheng , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Kai Sun , L. Sheng

We report on an observation of a fractional quantum Hall effect in an ultra-high quality two-dimensional hole gas hosted in a strained Ge quantum well. The Hall resistance reveals precisely quantized plateaus and vanishing longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Q. Shi , M. A. Zudov , C. Morrison , M. Myronov

Most of the fractions observed to date belong to the sequences $\nu=n/(2pn\pm 1)$ and $\nu=1-n/(2pn\pm 1)$, $n$ and $p$ integers, understood as the familiar {\em integral} quantum Hall effect of composite fermions. These sequences fail to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. -C Chang , J. K. Jain

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in two-dimensional electron system (2DES) is an exotic, superfluid-like matter with an emergent topological order. From the consideration of Aharonov-Bohm interaction of electrons and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 W. Pan , W. Kang , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. C. Tsui

Fractional Quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a unique many-body phenomenon, which was discovered in a two-dimensional electron system placed in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. It is entirely due to the electron-electron interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Vadym Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

We investigate the feasibility of many candidate quantum Hall states for two-component bosons in the lowest Landau level. We identify interactions for which spin-singlet incompressible states occur at filling factors $\nu=2/3$, 4/5 and 4/3,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-25 Ying-Hai Wu , Jainendra K. Jain

A novel hierarchy of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in the lowest Landau level (LL) is proposed to explain recently observed FQH fractions such as nu=5/13, 3/8, or 4/11. Based on the analysis of their interaction pseudopotentials, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arkadiusz Wojs , Kyung-Soo Yi , John J. Quinn

The present theory has investigated the FQHE without any quasi-particle. The electric field due to the Hall voltage is taken into consideration. We find the ground state where the electron configuration is uniquely determined so as to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Shosuke Sasaki

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) occurs at certain magnetic field strengths B*(n) in a two-dimensional electron gas of density n at strong magnetic fields perpendicular to the plane of the electron gas. At these magnetic fields…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Heinonen , M. I. Lubin , M. D. Johnson