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We report on numerical study of the Dirac fermions in partially filled N=3 Landau level (LL) in graphene. At half-filling, the equal-time density-density correlation function displays sharp peaks at nonzero wavevectors $\pm {\bf q^{*}}$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-31 Hao Wang , D. N. Sheng , L. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane

This work is a continuation of our recent study of non-relativistic charged particles, confined to a sphere enclosing a magnetic dipole at its center. In this sequel, we extend our computations in two significant ways. The first is to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Jeff Murugan , Jonathan P. Shock , Ruach Pillay Slayen

Field theories of the composite-fermion (CF) metal model it as a Fermi sea of composite fermions coupled to an emergent gauge field. Within a random phase approximation, these theories predict that the Landau damping of the gauge field…

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We show that in the limit of vanishing bare electron effective mass, and in the presence of particle-hole symmetric disorder (which can be of vanishing strength), the composite fermion Hall conductance is constrained to be $-{1\over…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D-H Lee , Y. Krotov , J. Gan , S. A. Kivelson

In this work we propose a parton state as a candidate state to describe the fractional quantum Hall effect in the half-filled second Landau level. The wave function for this parton state is $\mathcal{P}_{\rm LLL}…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-19 Ajit C. Balram , Maissam Barkeshli , Mark S. Rudner

The Halperin-Lee-Read Fermi sea of composite fermions (CFs) at half-filled lowest Landau level is the realization of a fascinating non-Fermi liquid metallic phase. Remarkably, experiments have found that as the width of the quantum well is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-02 Anirban Sharma , Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain

I demonstrate that the wavefunction for a nu = n+ tilde{nu} quantum Hall state with Landau levels 0,1,...,n-1 filled and a filling fraction tilde{nu} quantum Hall state with 0 < tilde{nu} \leq 1 in the nth Landau level can be obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 Parsa Bonderson

We analyze the linear response of a half filled Landau level to long wavelength and low frequency driving forces, using Fermi liquid theory for composite fermions. This response is determined by the composite fermions quasi--particle…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ady Stern , Bertrand I. Halperin

Recently we proposed a state described by the second Landau level (SLL) projection of the antiholomorphic Pfaffian wavefunction as a candidate for the ground state of the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect. In this paper we provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Jian Yang

A set of scalar operators are employed to generate explicit representations of both hierarchy states (e.g., the series of fillings 1/3, 2/5, 3/7, ... ) and their conjugates (fillings 1, 2/3, 3/5, ...) as non-interacting quasi-electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-27 W. C. Haxton , Daniel J. Haxton

Composite fermion (CF) is a topological quasiparticle that emerges from a non-perturbative attachment of vortices to electrons in strongly correlated two-dimensional materials. Similar to non-interacting fermions that form Landau levels in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Songyang Pu , Ajit C. Balram , Yuwen Hu , Yen-Chen Tsui , Minhao He , Nicolas Regnault , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani , Zlatko Papić

Transport measurements under a tilted magnetic field were performed on a series of C-doped (001) AlGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional hole samples. Due to a large g-factor, Zeeman energy is large and comparable to the cyclotron energy in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Po Zhang , Ruiyuan Liu , Rui-Rui Du , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The pair distribution function and the static structure factor are computed for composite fermions. Clear and robust evidence for a $2k_F$ structure is seen in a range of filling factors in the vicinity of the half-filled Landau level.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. K. Kamilla , J. K. Jain , S. M. Girvin

We discuss the implications of approximate particle-hole symmetry in a half-filled Landau level in which a paired quantum Hall state forms. We note that the Pfaffian state is not particle-hole symmetric. Therefore, in the limit of vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sung-Sik Lee , Shinsei Ryu , Chetan Nayak , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Exact diagonalization of a two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field in the disk geometry shows that there exists a filling factor range in the second Landau level where the states significantly differ from those in the lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 Csaba Toke , Michael R. Peterson , Gun Sang Jeon , Jainendra K. Jain

We compare quantum Hall systems at filling factor 2 to those at filling factors 2/3 and 2/5, corresponding to the exact filling of two lowest electron or composite fermion (CF) Landau levels. The two fractional states are examples of CF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Vyborny , O. Certik , D. Pfannkuche , D. Wodzinski , A. Wojs , J. J. Quinn

We study fractional quantum Hall states at filling fractions in the Jain sequences using the framework of composite Dirac fermions. Synthesizing previous work, we write down an effective field theory consistent with all symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Dung Xuan Nguyen , Siavash Golkar , Matthew M. Roberts , Dam Thanh Son

We numerically assess model wave functions for the recently proposed particle-hole-symmetric Pfaffian (`PH-Pfaffian') topological order, a phase consistent with the recently reported thermal Hall conductance [Banerjee et al., Nature 559,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 Ryan V. Mishmash , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea , Olexei I. Motrunich

When a fermionic quantum Hall system is projected into the lowest Landau level, there is an exact particle-hole symmetry between filling fractions $\nu$ and $1-\nu$. We investigate whether a similar symmetry can emerge in bosonic quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-30 Scott D. Geraedts , Cecile Repellin , Chong Wang , Roger S. K. Mong , T. Senthil , Nicolas Regnault

The effective interaction between composite fermions, set entirely by the Coulomb potential and the underlying electronic Landau level orbitals, can stabilize exotic fractional quantum Hall states. In particular, half-filled Landau levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Ravi Kumar , Tomer Firon , André Haug , Misha Yutushui , Alon Ner Gaon , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , David F. Mross , Yuval Ronen