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We show that the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, a state of matter with topological properties distinct from conventional insulators, can be realized in HgTe/CdTe semiconductor quantum wells. By varying the thickness of the quantum well, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in a p-type WSe$_2$ monolayer under very high magnetic field. The oscillation pattern is complex due to a large spin and valley splitting, in the non-fully-resolved Landau level regime. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Banan Kerdi , Mathieu Pierre , Robin Cours , Bénédicte Warot-Fonrose , Michel Goiran , Walter Escoffier

Symmetry, dimensionality, and interaction are crucial ingredients for phase transitions and quantum states of matter. As a prominent example, the integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) represents a topological phase generally regarded as…

The recent discovery of the 3D quantum Hall effect in $\mathrm{HfTe_5}$ has also revealed puzzling signatures of possible 3D fractionalization. Beyond the first plateau associated with the lowest Landau band, Hall conductivity exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jun-Hong Li , Yi-Yuan Chen , Peng-Lu Zhao , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We report on magneto-transport measurements of a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a Cd$_{0.997}$Mn$_{0.003}$Te quantum well structure under conditions of vanishing Zeeman energy. The electron Zeeman energy has been tuned via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. J. Teran , M. Potemski , D. K. Maude , T. Andrearczyk , J. Jaroszynski , T. Wojtowicz , G. Karczewski

The intriguing re-entrant integer quantized Hall states recently discovered in high Landau levels of high-mobility 2D electron systems are found to exhibit extremely non-linear transport. At small currents these states reflect insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. B. Cooper , M. P. Lilly , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Moir\'e superlattices in semiconductors exhibit a rich variety of interaction-induced topological states, including quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effects. A recent study hinted that twisted WSe2 homobilayer (tWSe2) could host a QAH state but…

We study the collective modes of the quantum Hall states in undoped bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic and electric field. Both for the well-known ferromagnetic state that is relevant for small electric field $E_\perp$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-04 Csaba Toke , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The chiral two-dimensional electron gas in Landau levels $\left\vert N\right\vert >0$ of a Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer has a valley-pseudospin Ising quantum Hall ferromagnetic behavior at odd filling factors $\nu _{N}=1,3$ of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Wenchen Luo , R. Côté

We report magneto-transport measurements in wide GaAs quantum wells with tunable density to probe the stability of the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factor $\nu = $ 5/2 in the vicinity of the crossing between Landau levels (LLs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Yang Liu , D. Kamburov , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Experiments on the fractional quantized Hall effect in the zeroth Landau level of graphene have revealed some striking differences between filling factors in the ranges 0<|\nu|<1 and 1<|\nu|<2. We argue that these differences can be largely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Dmitry A. Abanin , Benjamin E. Feldman , Amir Yacoby , Bertrand I. Halperin

We study the quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level for a single wide quantum well. Due to a separation of charges to opposite sides of the well, a single wide well can be modelled as an effective two level system. We provide…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Abolfath , L. Belkhir , N. Nafari

Quantum Hall states at filling fraction $\nu$=5/2 are examined by numerical diagonalization. Spin-polarized and -unpolarized states of systems with $N\le 18$ electrons are studied, neglecting effects of Landau level mixing. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rudolf H. Morf

We have analyzed the crucial role the Coulomb interaction strength plays on the even and odd denominator fractional quantum Hall effects in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the ZnO heterointerface. In this system, the Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Wenchen Luo , Tapash Chakraborty

We present a different approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), focusing it as a consequence of the change in the symmetry of the Hamiltonian of every electron in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under the application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 M. A. Hidalgo

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

We explore the emergence of topological phases in moir\'{e} MoTe$_2$/WSe$_2$ bilayer, highlighting the crucial role of spin-orbit coupling and Coulomb interactions at two holes per moir\'e unit cell \(v = 2\). Our analysis uncovers robust…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Palash Saha , Michał Zegrodnik

Double layer quantum Hall systems have interesting properties associated with interlayer correlations. At $\nu =1/m$ where $m$ is an odd integer they exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking equivalent to that of spin $1/2$ easy-plane…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Kun Yang , K. Moon , L. Zheng , A. H. MacDonald , S. M. Girvin , D. Yoshioka , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We numerically study a 5/2 fractional quantum Hall system with even number of electrons using the exact diagonalization where both the strong Landau level (LL) mixing and a finite width of the quantum well have been considered and adapted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Wenchen Luo , Wei Zhang , Yutao Hu , Hao Wang

We review the theoretical basis and understanding of electronic interactions in graphene Landau levels, in the limit of strong correlations. This limit occurs when inter-Landau-level excitations may be omitted because they belong to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault