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The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect refers to the strongly-correlated phenomena and the associated quantum phases of matter realized in a two-dimensional gas of electrons placed in a large perpendicular magnetic field. In such systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Zlatko Papić , Ajit C. Balram

A two-dimensional electron system exposed to a strong magnetic field produces a plethora of strongly interacting fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, the complex topological orders of which are revealed through exotic emergent particles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ke Huang , Ajit C. Balram , Hailong Fu , Chengqi Guo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jainendra K. Jain , Jun Zhu

Composite fermions (CFs) of the fractional quantum Hall effect are described as spherical products of electron and vortex spinors, built from underlying L=1/2 ladder operators aligned so that the spinor angular momenta Le and Lv are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-26 W. C. Haxton , Daniel J. Haxton , Byungmin Kang

Unconventional fermions with high degeneracies in three dimensions beyond Weyl and Dirac fermions have sparked tremendous interest in condensed matter physics. Here, we study quantum Hall effects (QHEs) in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Yong Xu , L. -M. Duan

By developing an algorithm for evaluating the basis states for the composite fermions with negative effective magnetic field, we perform the composite-fermion-diagonalization study for the fully spin-polarized fractional quantum Hall states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 Sutirtha Mukherjee , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We present a spectrum of experimental data on the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states in the first excited Landau level, obtained in an ultrahigh mobility two-dimensional electron system (2DES) and at very low temperatures and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Pan , J. S. Xia , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , C. Vicente , E. D. Adams , N. S. Sullivan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We discuss the properties of Skyrmions in the Fractional Quantum Hall effect (FQHE). We begin with a brief description of the Chern-Simons-Landau-Ginzburg description of the FQHE, which provides the framework in which to understand a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alex Travesset

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect at the filling factor $\nu=5/2$ was discovered in GaAs heterostructures more than 35 years ago. Various topological orders have been proposed as possible candidates to describe this FQH state. Some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Ken K. W. Ma , Michael R. Peterson , V. W. Scarola , Kun Yang

We have studied collective spin density excitations of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in rotating Bose-Einstein condensation for the three filling fractions of first series of Jain's composite fermion sequences. We have considered,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 Moumita Indra , Dwipesh Majumder

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…

The fractional quantum Hall effect has inspired searches for exotic emergent topological particles, such as fractionally charged excitations, composite fermions, abelian and nonabelian anyons and Majorana fermions. Fractionally charged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-30 Ajit C. Balram , U. Wurstbauer , A. Wójs , A. Pinczuk , J. K. Jain

The edge of spin unpolarized or spin polarized $\nu=2/3$ fractional quantum Hall states is predicted by the effective theory to support a backward moving neutral mode in addition to a forward moving charge mode. We study this issue from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 Ying-Hai Wu , G. J. Sreejith , Jainendra K. Jain

Fascinating structures have arisen from the study of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the even denominator fraction of $5/2$. We consider the FQHE at another even denominator fraction, namely $\nu=2+3/8$, where a well-developed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-12 Ajit C. Balram

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect at filling factor v = 5/2 has recently come under close scrutiny, as it may possess quasi-particle excitations obeying nonabelian statistics, a property sought for topologically protected quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Lars Tiemann , Gerardo Gamez , Norio Kumada , Koji Muraki

A novel model of complex quantum harmonic oscillator is found to account for the observed Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE). The sequences of the observed FQHE conductivity and charge are explained. The two sequences are found to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 A. I. Arbab

It is well known that the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE) may be effectively represented by a Chern-Simons theory. In order to incorporate QH Skyrmions, we couple this theory to the topological spin current, and include the Hopf term.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Baez , A. P. Balachandran , A. Stern , A. Travesset

We present a theory of composite fermion edge states and their transport properties in the fractional and integer quantum Hall regimes. We show that the effective electro-chemical potentials of composite fermions at the edges of a Hall bar…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 George Kirczenow , Brad L. Johnson

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states have recently been observed at unexpected values of the filling factor nu. Here we interpret these states as a novel family of FQH states involving pairing correlations rather than Laughlin correlations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 John J. Quinn , Arkadiusz Wojs , Kyung-Soo Yi

Rotationally invariant fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states have long been understood in terms of composite bosons or composite fermions. Recent investigations of both incompressible and compressible states in highly tilted fields, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-24 Ganpathy Murthy

In the framework of a recently developed model of interacting composite fermions, we calculate the energy of different solid and Laughlin-type liquid phases of spin-polarized composite fermions. The liquid phases have a lower energy than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Goerbig , P. Lederer , C. Morais Smith