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We propose a matrix model to describe a class of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states for a system of (N_1+N_2) electrons with filling factor more general than in the Laughlin case. Our model, which is developed for FQH states with filling…

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The fundamental collective degree of freedom of fractional quantum Hall states is identified as a unimodular two-dimensional spatial metric that characterizes the local shape of the correlations of the incompressible fluid. Its quantum…

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The entanglement entropy of the incompressible states of a realistic quantum Hall system are studied by direct diagonalization. The subdominant term to the area law, the topological entanglement entropy, which is believed to carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 B. A. Friedman , G. C. Levine

We study the anisotropic effect of the Coulomb interaction on a 1/3-filling fractional quantum Hall system by using an exact diagonalization method on small systems in torus geometry. For weak anisotropy the system remains to be an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-18 Hao Wang , Rajesh Narayanan , Xin Wan , Fuchun Zhang

Fractional quantum Hall states are promising platforms for topological quantum computation due to their capacity to encode quantum information in topologically degenerate ground states and in the fusion space of non-abelian anyons. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Zijian Wang , Ruihua Fan , Tianle Wang , Samuel J. Garratt , Ehud Altman

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

We investigate the ground state properties of a bosonic Harper-Hofstadter model with local interactions on a finite cylindrical lattice with filling fraction $\nu=1/2$. We find that our system supports topologically ordered states by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Paolo Rosson , Michael Lubasch , Martin Kiffner , Dieter Jaksch

The robustness of fractional quantum Hall states is measured as the energy gap separating the Laughlin ground-state from excitations. Using thermodynamic approximations for the correlation functions of the Laughlin state and the quasihole…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-10-10 T. Grass , M. A. Baranov , M. Lewenstein

The Laughlin state is an ansatz for the ground state of a system of 2D quantum particles submitted to a strong magnetic field and strong interactions. The two effects conspire to generate strong and very specific correlations between the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Nicolas Rougerie

We study the quantum Hall states that appear in the dilute limit of rotating ultracold fermionic gases when a single hyperfine species is present. We show that the p-wave scattering translates into a pure hard-core interaction in the lowest…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Thierry Jolicoeur , Nicolas Regnault

Hall viscosity is a quantized nondissipative stress response of a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluid to adiabatic geometric deformations. Despite strong theoretical interest, its experimental observation in the FQH state has remained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Ammar Kirmani , Andrew A. Allocca , Jian-Xin Zhu , Armin Rahmani , Sriram Ganeshan , Pouyan Ghaemi

We present a comprehensive numerical study of a microscopic model of the fractional quantum Hall system at filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, based on the disc geometry. Our model includes Coulomb interaction and a semi-realistic confining…

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

We quantum mechanically analyze the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene. This will be done by building the corresponding states in terms of a potential governing the interactions and discussing other issues. More precisely, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Ahmed Jellal , Bellati Malika

Density oscillations in quantum fluids can reveal their fundamental characteristic features. In this work, we study the density oscillation of incompressible fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluids created by flux insertion. For the model…

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Strongly correlated topological phases of matter are central to modern condensed matter physics and quantum information technology but often challenging to probe and control in material systems. The experimental difficulty of accessing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Lingnan Shen , Mao Lin , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin , Di Xiao , Ting Cao

The second-quantized form of the Laughlin states for the fractional quantum Hall effect is discussed by decomposing the Laughlin wavefunctions into the $N$-particle Slater basis. A general formula is given for the expansion coefficients in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Dunne

We introduce a quench of the geometry of Landau level orbitals as a probe of nonequilibrium dynamics of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. We show that such geometric quenches induce coherent many-body dynamics of neutral degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-29 Zhao Liu , Andrey Gromov , Zlatko Papić

A key property of topologically ordered systems, such as Quantum Hall states, is the existence of excitations obeying fractional quantum statistics - anyons. We develop a theory for multicomponent counterflow states where an ordinary…

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Possible phase transitions between incompressible quantum Hall states and compressible three-dimensional states are discussed for infinite-layer electron systems in strong magnetic field. By variational Monte Carlo calculation, relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sei Suzuki , Yoshio Kuramoto

We study the real-space entanglement spectrum for fractional quantum Hall systems, which maintains locality along the spatial cut, and provide evidence that it possesses a scaling property. We also consider the closely-related particle…

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