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We examine the quantum phase diagram of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the lowest two Landau levels in half-filled bilayer structures as a function of tunneling strength and layer separation, i.e., we revisit the lowest Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-06 Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma

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

Two-component fractional quantum Hall systems are providing a major motivation for a large section of the physics community. Here we study two-component fractional quantum Hall systems in the spin-polarized half-filled lowest Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Michael R. Peterson , Z. Papic , S. Das Sarma

The fractional quantum Hall effect is a paradigm of topological order and has been studied thoroughly in two dimensions. Here, we construct a new type of fractional quantum Hall system, which has the special property that it lives in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-26 Sourav Manna , Biplab Pal , Wei Wang , Anne E. B. Nielsen

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

Two-component fractional quantum Hall (2C-FQH) states in electron bilayers have been known for decades, yet their experimental realization remained limited to low-order fractions. Here we report on several families of high-order 2C-FQH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 E. Bell , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , M. A. Zudov

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 (FQH) state is a topological state of matter resulting from the many-body effect of interacting electrons and is of vast interest in fundamental physics. The experimental observation of topological surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-15 Dong-Xia Qu , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava

There are several possible theoretically allowed non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states that could potentially be realized in one- and two- component FQH systems at total filling fraction $\nu = n+ 2/3$, for integer $n$. Some of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-09 Michael R. Peterson , Yang-Le Wu , Meng Cheng , Maissam Barkeshli , Zhenghan Wang , Sankar Das Sarma

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states are topologically ordered which indicates that their essential properties are insensitive to smooth deformations of the manifold on which they are studied. Their microscopic Hamiltonian description,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-06 Emil J. Bergholtz , Masaaki Nakamura , Juha Suorsa

The energy spectra and wavefunctions of up to 14 interacting quasielectrons (QE's) in the Laughlin nu=1/3 fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state are investigated using exact numerical diagonalization. It is shown that at sufficiently high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arkadiusz Wojs , Kyung-Soo Yi , John J. Quinn

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is a canonical example of electron-electron interactions producing new ground states in many-body systems. Most FQH studies have focused on the lowest Landau level (LL), whose fractional states are…

The Fibonacci topological order is the simplest platform for a universal topological quantum computer, consisting of a single type of non-Abelian anyon, $\tau$, with fusion rule $\tau\times\tau=1+\tau$. While it has been proposed that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-16 Hart Goldman , Ramanjit Sohal , Eduardo Fradkin

We have developed a matrix model for FQH states at filling factor \nu_{k_1k_2} going beyond the Laughlin theory. To illustrate our idea, we have considered an FQH system of a finite number N=(N_{1}+N_{2}) of electrons with filling factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 A. Jellal , E. H. Saidi , H. B. Geyer , R. A. Roemer

We describe an occupation-number-like picture of Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) states in terms of polynomial wavefunctions characterized by a dominant occupation-number configuration. The bosonic variants of single-component abelian and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Andrei Bernevig , F. D. M. Haldane

We theoretically investigate the nature of the state at quarter filled lowest Landau level and predict that, as the quantum well width is increased, a transition occurs from the composite fermion Fermi sea into a novel non-Abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-10 William N. Faugno , Ajit C. Balram , Maissam Barkeshli , Jainendra K. Jain

It is argued that fractional quantum Hall effect wavefunctions can be interpreted as conformal blocks of two-dimensional conformal field theory. Fractional statistics can be extended to nonabelian statistics and examples can be constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Read , G. Moore

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

Collective modes of exotic quantum fluids reveal underlying physical mechanisms responsible for emergent complex quantum ground states. We observe unexpected new collective modes in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Lingjie Du , Ursula Wurstbauer , Ken W. West , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Saeed Fallahi , Geoff C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra , Aron Pinczuk

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics. It is described by a simple Laughlin wavefunction and has been thoroughly studied both theoretically and experimentally. In lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-07 Anne E. B. Nielsen , German Sierra , J. Ignacio Cirac