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We present a theoretical framework to describe the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) in three-dimensional (3D) electron systems. This extends our previous single-electron approach, which was successfully applied to two-dimensional (2D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 M. A. Hidalgo

Area non-preserving transformations in the non-commutative plane are introduced with the aim to map the $\nu=1$ integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) state on the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) $\nu=\frac{1}{2p+1}$ FQHE states. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Eliashvili , G. Tsitsishvili

The integer quantum Hall effect features a paradigmatic quantum phase transition. Despite decades of work, experimental, numerical, and analytical studies have yet to agree on a unified understanding of the critical behavior. Based on a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-30 Martin Puschmann , Philipp Cain , Michael Schreiber , Thomas Vojta

We theoretically study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in graphene with an ac electric field. Based on the tight-binding model, the structure of the half-integer Hall plateaus at $\sigma_{xy} = \pm(n + 1/2)4e^2/h$ ($n$ is an integer) gets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Kai-He Ding , Lih-King Lim , Gang Su , Zheng-Yu Weng

We analyze charge-$e/4$ quasiparticle tunneling between the edges of a point contact in a non-Abelian model of the $\nu=5/2$ quantum Hall state. We map this problem to resonant tunneling between attractive Luttinger liquids and use the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adrian Feiguin , Paul Fendley , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

We investigate the theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect (QHE) proposed a long time ago by Lopez and Fradkin \cite{Fradkin1991chern} to describe the principal Jain series. The magnetic fluxes of the statistical gauge field attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 M. Selch , M. A. Zubkov , Souvik Pramanik , M. Lewkowicz

Charge fractionalization is a possible emergent excitation in a low-dimensional system of interacting electrons. A known example is that of fractional charges in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) regime, which is a consequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Hiroyuki Inoue , Anna Grivnin , Nissim Ofek , Izhar Neder , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

We present the essential findings of the screening theory of the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) considering a quantum point contact (QPC). Our approach is to solve the Poisson and the Schroedinger equations self-consistently, taking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Siddiki

The scaling theory of the transitions between plateaus of the Hall conductivity in the integer Quantum Hall effect is reviewed. In the model of two-dimensional noninteracting electrons in strong magnetic fields the transitions are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Bodo Huckestein

We obtain a ``mean field'' scaling flow of the longitudinal and the Hall conductivities in the fractional quantum Hall regime. Using the composite fermion picture and assuming that the composite fermions follow the Khmelnitskii-Pruisken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Hae-Young Kee , Yong Baek Kim , Elihu Abrahams , R. N. Bhatt

An asymmetric break-down of the integer quantized Hall effect is investigated. This rectification effect is observed as a function of the current value and its direction in conjunction with an asymmetric lateral confinement potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-30 A. Siddiki , J. Horas , D. Kupidura , W. Wegscheider , S. Ludwig

We investigate the scaling properties of zero temperature conductances at integer quantum Hall plateau transitions in the lowest Landau band of a two-dimensional tight-binding model. Scaling is obeyed for all energy and system sizes with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiashoa Wang , Qiming Li , C. M. Soukoulis

Low-energy transport measurements in Quantum Hall systems have been argued to be governed by emergent modular symmetries whose predictions are robust against many of the detailed microscopic dynamics. We propose the recently-observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. P. Burgess , B. P. Dolan

The present theory has investigated the FQHE without any quasi-particle. The electric field due to the Hall voltage is taken into consideration. We find the ground state where the electron configuration is uniquely determined so as to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Shosuke Sasaki

Transformations between the plateau states of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) are an archetypical example of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) between phases with non-trivial topological order. These transitions appear to be well-described by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-06 Andrey Rogachev

Even though the integer quantum Hall transition has been investigated for nearly four decades its critical behavior remains a puzzle. The best theoretical and experimental results for the localization length exponent $\nu$ differ…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-20 Martin Puschmann , Philipp Cain , Michael Schreiber , Thomas Vojta

We give a simple macroscopic phase-space explanation of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), in a fashion reminiscent of the Landau-Ginsburg macroscopic symmetry breaking analyses. This is in contrast to the more complicated microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 F. A Buot , G. Maglasang , A. R. F. Elnar , C. M. Galon

We propose a resolution of the renormalization group flow for the disordered Dirac fermion theories describing the quantum Hall transition (QHT) and spin Quantum Hall transition (SQHT), which previously revealed no perturbative fixed points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-30 André LeClair

The conventional theory of the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) fails for irrational magnetic fields owing to the breakdown of magnetic translational symmetry. Here, based on the recently proposed incommensurate energy band (IEB) theory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Zhao-Wen Miao , Chen Zhao , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

We review recent applications of the real-space renormalization group (RG) approach to the integer quantum Hall (QH) transition. The RG approach, applied to the Chalker-Coddington network model, reproduces the critical distribution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rudolf A. Roemer , Philipp Cain