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The electronic properties of graphene are described by a Dirac Hamiltonian with a fourfold symmetry of spin and valley. This symmetry may yield novel fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at high magnetic field depending on the relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-12 F. Amet , A. J. Bestwick , J. R. Williams , L. Balicas , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The fractional quantum Hall effect is a very particular manifestation of electronic correlations in two-dimensional systems in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. It arises as a consequence of a strong Coulomb repulsion between electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Mark O. Goerbig

We show that a first-order phase transition can take place in a metal in a strong magnetic field if an electron Landau level approaches the Fermi energy of the metal. This transition is due to the electron-phonon interaction and is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-20 G. P. Mikitik , Yu. V. Sharlai

The two-dimensional electron system (2DES) is a unique laboratory for the physics of interacting particles. Application of a large magnetic field produces massively degenerate quantum levels known as Landau levels. Within a Landau level the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 O. E. Dial , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) at even-denominator Landau level filling factors ($\nu$) are of prime interest as they are predicted to host exotic, topological states of matter. We report here the observation of a FQHS at $\nu=1/2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Md. Shafayat Hossain , M. K. Ma , Y. J. Chung , S. K. Singh , A. Gupta , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

Highly nonlocal interparticle correlations in quantum Hall states of 2D charged system exposed to the perpendicular strong magnetic field are detailed by application of the commensurability condition upon path-integral quantization approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Janusz E. Jacak

The nature of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states is determined by the interplay between the Coulomb interaction and the symmetries of the system. The unique combination of spin, valley, and orbital degeneracies in bilayer graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Angela Kou , Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Bertrand I. Halperin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amir Yacoby

We study a two-dimensional electron system where the electrons occupy two conduction band valleys with anisotropic Fermi contours and strain-tunable occupation. We observe persistent quantum Hall states at filling factors $\nu = 1/3$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-11 Medini Padmanabhan , T. Gokmen , M. Shayegan

Two-dimensional multi-valley electronic systems in which the dispersion of individual pockets has low symmetry give rise to quantum Hall ferroelectric and nematic states in the presence of strong quantising magnetic fields. We investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Pok Man Tam , Tongtong Liu , Inti Sodemann , Liang Fu

The orbital structure of the quantum Hall ferromagnetic states in the zero-energy Landau level in chiral multilayer graphene (AB, ABC, ABCA, etc.\ stackings) is determined by the exchange interaction with all levels, including deep-lying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Csaba Toke

Composite fermion metal states emerge in quantum Hall bilayers at total Landau level filling factor $\nu_T$=1 when the tunneling gap collapses by application of in-plane components of the external magnetic field. Evidence of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Biswajit Karmakar , Stefano Luin , Vittorio Pellegrini , Aron Pinczuk , Brian S. Dennis , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West

The electronic state of \alpha-type organic Dirac fermion systems such as \alpha-(ET)_2I_3 or \alpha-(BETS)_2I_3 has been studied under magnetic fields using the four-band tight-binding model with Peierls phase factors. The validity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Toshihito Osada

When confined to two dimensions and exposed to a strong magnetic field, electrons screen the Coulomb interaction in a topological fashion; they capture and even number of quantum vortices and transform into particl es called `composite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vito W. Scarola , Kwon Park , J. K. Jain

The electronic properties of graphene can be manipulated via mechanical deformations, which opens prospects for studying the Dirac fermions in new regimes and for new device applications. Certain natural configurations of strain generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 D. A. Abanin , D. A. Pesin

The Fermi surface of elemental bismuth consists of three small rotationally equivalent electron pockets, offering a valley degree of freedom to charge carriers. A relatively small magnetic field can confine electrons to their lowest Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Zengwei Zhu , Jinhua Wang , Huakun Zuo , Benoît Fauqué , Ross D. McDonald , Yuki Fuseya , Kamran Behnia

In a low-disorder two-dimensional electron system, when two Landau levels of opposite spin or pseudospin cross at the Fermi level, the dominance of the exchange energy can lead to a ferromagnetic, quantum Hall ground state whose gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Meng K. Ma , Chengyu Wang , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

Semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit high mobility, strong spin-orbit coupling, and large effective masses, which simultaneously leads to a rich wealth of Landau quantizations and inherently strong electronic…

We proposed a theory of quantum anomalous Hall effect in a flat-band ferromagnet on a two-dimensional (2D) decorated lattice with spin-orbit coupling. Free electrons on the lattice have dispersionless flat bands, and the ground state is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

This work treats the effects of disorder and interactions in a quantum Hall ferromagnet, which is realized in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field at Landau level filling factor equal one. We study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 D. Makogon , A. Alamir , C. Morais Smith

A graphene bilayer in a transverse magnetic field has a set of Landau levels with energies $E=\pm \sqrt{N(N+1)}\hslash \omega_{c}^{\ast}$ where $\omega_{c}^{\ast}$ is the effective cyclotron frequency and $% N=0,1,2,...$ All Landau levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 R. Cote , Wenchen Luo , Branko Petrov , Yafis Barlas , A. H. MacDonald