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In an ideal two-component two-dimensional electron system, particle-hole symmetry dictates that the fractional quantum Hall states around $\nu = 1/2$ are equivalent to those around $\nu = 3/2$. We demonstrate that composite fermions (CFs)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-09 Medini Padmanabhan , Tayfun Gokmen , Mansour Shayegan

The effects of interactions in a 2D electron system in a strong magnetic field of two degenerate Landau levels with opposite spins and at filling factors 1/2 are studied. Using the Chern-Simons gauge transformation, the system is mapped to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matteo Merlo , Nicodemo Magnoli , Maura Sassetti , Bernhard Kramer

Particle-hole symmetry breaking in the fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been studied both theoretically and experimentally with most works focusing on non-Abelian states in the second electronic Landau level. In this work, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-19 Eduardo Palacios , Michael R. Peterson

We study the critical spin-polarization energy ($\alpha_{\rm C}$) above which fractional quantum Hall states in two-dimensional electron systems confined to symmetric GaAs quantum wells become fully spin-polarized. We find a significant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , A. Wójs , J. K. Jain , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

The enigmatic even-denominator fractional quantum Hall state at Landau level filling factor $\nu=5/2$ is arguably the most promising candidate for harboring Majorana quasi-particles with non-Abelian statistics and thus of potential use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Md. Shafayat Hossain , Meng K. Ma , M. A. Mueed , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

Composite fermions in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are believed to form a Fermi sea of weakly interacting particles at half filling $\nu=1/2$. Recently, it was proposed (D. T. Son, Phys. Rev. X 5, 031027 (2015)) that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Antti Laitinen , Manohar Kumar , Pertti J. Hakonen

The even denominator fractional quantum Hall effect has been experimentally observed in graphene in the fourth Landau level ($n = 3$). This paper is motivated by recent studies regarding the possibility of pairing and the nature of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-14 Sonja Predin

The classic composite fermion field theory (Ref. 1) builds up an excellent framework to uniformly study important physical objects and globally explain anomalous experimental phenomena in fractional quantum Hall physics while there are also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-20 Yibin Yang , Xi Luo , Yue Yu

The composite-fermion approach as formulated in the fermion Chern-Simons theory has been very successful in describing the physics of the lowest Landau level near Landau level filling factor 1/2. Recent work has emphasized the fact that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Felix von Oppen , Bertrand I. Halperin , Steven H. Simon , Ady Stern

We construct an action for the composite Dirac fermion consistent with symmetries of electrons projected to the lowest Landau level. First we construct a generalization of the $g=2$ electron that gives a smooth massless limit on any curved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Kartik Prabhu , Matthew M. Roberts

We introduce an effective theory with manifest particle-vortex symmetry for disordered thin films undergoing a magnetic field-tuned superconductor-insulator transition. The theory may enable one to access both the critical properties of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-18 Michael Mulligan

We calculate the effect of infrared fluctuations of the Chern-Simons gauge field on the single-particle Green's function of composite fermions in the half-filled Landau level via higher-dimensional bosonization on a curved Fermi surface. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Peter Kopietz , Guillermo E. Castilla

We present a particle-hole symmetric theory for a two-dimensional electron gas at filling factor one half. In this theory, elementary excitations are dipole-like fermions floating on top of the $\nu=1/2$ boson quantum Hall liquid. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Dung-Hai Lee

Standard field theoretic formulations of composite fermion theories for the anomalous metals that form at or near even-denominator filling fractions of the lowest Landau level do not possess Galilei invariance. To restore Galilei symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-08 Yen-Wen Lu , Prashant Kumar , Michael Mulligan

We formulate point-particle effective field theory (PPEFT) for relativistic spin-half fermions interacting with a massive, charged finite-sized source using a first-quantized effective field theory for the heavy compact object and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 C. P. Burgess , Peter Hayman , Markus Rummel , Laszlo Zalavari

Recent variational studies have demonstrated that the strongly correlated ground states of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect can be captured using machine learning approaches starting from no prior knowledge of the underlying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Mytraya Gattu

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

The pairing of composite fermions (CFs), electron-flux quasi-particles, is commonly proposed to explain the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall state observed at $\nu=5/2$ in the first excited ($N=1$) Landau level (LL) of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 M. A. Mueed , D. Kamburov , Md. Shafayat Hossain , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

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 review the recently proposed Dirac composite fermion theory of the half-filled Landau level.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-14 Dam Thanh Son