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The spin transitions in the fractional quantum Hall effect provide a direct measure of the tiny energy differences between differently spin-polarized states, and thereby serve as an extremely sensitive test of the quantitative accuracy of…

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When a gas of electrons is confined to two dimensions, application of a strong magnetic field may lead to startling phenomena such as emergence of electron pairing. According to a theory this manifests itself as appearance of the fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-21 H. Saarikoski , E. Tolo , A. Harju , E. Rasanen

We report on results of finite-size numerical studies of partially filled lowest Landau level at low electron filling factors. We find convincing evidence suggesting that electrons form Wigner Crystals at sufficiently low filling factors,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kun Yang , F. D. M. Haldane , E. H. Rezayi

Mixing of Landau levels has been understood to be essential in governing the nature of the ground state for the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effect. The incompressibility of the ground state at filling factor $5/2$ in the strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-01 Wenchen Luo , Shenglin Peng , Hao Wang , Yu Zhou , Tapash Chakraborty

The ground state energy and the lowest excitations of a two dimensional Wigner crystal in a perpendicular magnetic field with one and two electrons per cell is investigated. In case of two electrons per lattice site, the interaction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Taut

By means of exact diagonalization we study the low-energy states of seven electrons in the lowest Landau level which are confined by a cylindric external potential modelling the rest of a macroscopic system and thus controlling the filling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 V. A. Kashurnikov , N. V. Prokof'ev , B. V. Svistunov , I. S. Tupitsyn

The phase diagram of an interacting two-dimensional electron system in a high magnetic field is enriched by the varying form of the effective Coulomb interaction, which depends strongly on the Landau level index. While the fractional…

The Landau level mixing is the key in understanding the mysterious $5/2$ fractional quantum Hall effect in GaAs quantum well. Theoretical calculations with and without Landau level mixing show striking differences. However, the way to deal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-08 Wenchen Luo , Muaath Abdulwahab , Xiang Liu , Hao Wang

In this work, we present an analytical theory of strongly correlated Wigner crystals (WCs) in the lowest Landau level (LLL) by constructing an approximate, but accurate effective two-body interaction for composite fermions (CFs)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-09 Jun-Won Rhim , Jainendra K. Jain , Kwon Park

In Landau levels N > 1, the ground state of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field evolves from a Wigner crystal for small filling of the partially filled Landau level, into a succession of bubble states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 R. Cote , C. Doiron , J. Bourassa , H. A. Fertig

While in the lowest Landau level the electron-electron interaction leads to the formation of the Wigner crystal, in higher Landau levels a solid phase with multiple electrons in a lattice site of crystal was predicted, which was called the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Xuebin Wang , Hailong Fu , Lingjie Du , Xiaoxue Liu , Pengjie Wang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Rui -Rui Du , Xi Lin

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 study the fractional quantum Hall effect in the central Landau level of bilayer graphene. By tuning the external applied magnetic field and the electric bias between the two layers one can access a regime where there is a degeneracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Ngoc Duc Le , Thierry Jolicoeur

At low Landau level filling of a two-dimensional electron system, typically associated with the formation of an electron crystal, we observe local minima in Rxx at filling factors nu=2/11, 3/17, 3/19, 2/13, 1/7, 2/15, 2/17, and 1/9. Each of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Pan , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We propose a new ground state trial wavefunction for a two-dimensional Wigner crystal in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. The wavefunction includes Laughlin-Jastrow correlations between electron pairs, and may be interpreted as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hangmo Yi , H. A. Fertig

Strong correlation brings a rich array of emergent phenomena, as well as a daunting challenge to theoretical physics study. In condensed matter physics, the fractional quantum Hall effect is a prominent example of strong correlation, with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-05 Yubing Qian , Tongzhou Zhao , Jianxiao Zhang , Tao Xiang , Xiang Li , Ji Chen

Measurements in very low disorder two-dimensional electrons confined to relatively wide GaAs quantum well samples with tunable density reveal reentrant $\nu=1$ integer quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level near filling factors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Yang Liu , C. G. Pappas , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

In this report we summarize a recent progress in exploration of correlated two-dimensional electron states in partially filled high Landau levels. At a mean-field Hartree-Fock level they can be described as charge-density waves, either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael M. Fogler

In two-dimensional electron systems confined to GaAs quantum wells, as a function of either tilting the sample in magnetic field or increasing density, we observe multiple transitions of the fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Yang Liu , D. Kamburov , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeifer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We investigate the interplay of disorder and interaction in two-dimensional electron systems in a strong magnetic field, focusing on the transition between Wigner crystals and fractional quantum Hall liquids. We first study classical Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ke Huang , Sankar Das Sarma , Xiao Li