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We present a numerical study of fractional quantum Hall liquid at Landau level filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in a microscopic model including long-range Coulomb interaction and edge confining potential, based on the disc geometry. We find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zi-Xiang Hu , Hua Chen , Kun Yang , E. H. Rezayi , Xin Wan

We observe geometric resonance features of composite fermions on the flanks of the even denominator {\nu} = 1/2 fractional quantum Hall state in high-mobility two-dimensional electron and hole systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. A. Mueed , D. Kamburov , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

In wide GaAs quantum wells where two electric subbands are occupied we apply a parallel magnetic field or increase the electron density to cause a crossing of the two $N=0$ Landau levels of these subbands and with opposite spins. Near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , J. Shabani , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We determine the ground-state phase-diagram of a Hubbard Hamiltonian with correlated hopping, which is asymmetric under particle-hole transform. By lowering the repulsive Coulomb interaction U at appropriate filling and interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Arianna Montorsi

We study the anisotropic effect of the Coulomb interaction on a 1/3-filling fractional quantum Hall system by using an exact diagonalization method on small systems in torus geometry. For weak anisotropy the system remains to be an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-18 Hao Wang , Rajesh Narayanan , Xin Wan , Fuchun Zhang

We construct a generalized Laughlin-liquid wave function and a variational electron solid wave function when the magnetic field is tilted. The energy of the liquid state is evaluated by Monte Carlo methods while the energy of the solid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Yue Yu , Shijie Yang

We propose a derivative operator formed as a function of derivatives of the electron coordinates. When the derivative operator is applied to the Laughlin wave function, two new wave functions in the lowest Landau level at filling factor 1/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-16 Jian Yang

In the 1960s speculations arose if a ground state exists in solid state materials with an electron and a hole bound to a pair with their spins added to integer values, i.e. excitons. Here we show that electrons and holes in TmSe0.45Te0.55…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-25 Benno Bucher , Tuson Park , J. D. Thompson , Peter Wachter

Recent theoretical works have demonstrated various robust Abelian and non-Abelian fractional topological phases in lattice models with topological flat bands carrying Chern number C=1. Here we study hard-core bosons and interacting fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-07 Yi-Fei Wang , Hong Yao , Chang-De Gong , D. N. Sheng

Electron-hole systems on a Haldane sphere are studied by exact numerical diagonalization. Low lying states contain one or more types of bound charged excitonic complexes Xk-, interacting through appropriate pseudopotentials. Incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arkadiusz Wojs , Izabela Szlufarska , Kyung-Soo Yi , John J. Quinn

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) occurs at certain magnetic field strengths B*(n) in a two-dimensional electron gas of density n at strong magnetic fields perpendicular to the plane of the electron gas. At these magnetic fields…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Heinonen , M. I. Lubin , M. D. Johnson

We develop a theory of a direct, continuous quantum phase transition between a bosonic Laughlin fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state and a superfluid, generalizing the Mott insulator to superfluid phase diagram of bosons to allow for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-18 Maissam Barkeshli , John McGreevy

We study bosonic and fermionic quantum two-leg ladders with orbital magnetic flux. In such systems, the ratio, $\nu$, of particle density to magnetic flux shapes the phase-space, as in quantum Hall effects. In fermionic (bosonic) ladders,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-08 Eyal Cornfeld , Eran Sela

Two-dimensional systems containing Ne electrons and Nh holes (Ne>Nh) strongly correlated through Coulomb interactions in the presence of a large magnetic field are studied by exact numerical diagonalization. Low lying states are found to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John J. Quinn , Arkadiusz Wojs , Izabela Szlufarska , Kyung-Soo Yi

Electron-hole pair excitations in semiconductors have been predicted to be able to give rise to a highly correlated many-body ground state, the excitonic insulator (EI). Under appropriate conditions below a critical temperature (Tc),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-18 Aidan Delgado , Carolin Dusold , Jingwei Jiang , Adam Cronin , Steven G. Louie , Felix R. Fischer

Experimental results indicating the existence of the high magnetic field Wigner Crystal have been available for a number of years. While variational wavefunctions have demonstrated the instability of the Laughlin liquid to a Wigner Crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Narevich , Ganpathy Murthy , H. A. Fertig

We derive an effective field theory for the isotropic-nematic quantum phase transition of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. We demonstrate that for a system with an isotropic background the low-energy effective theory of the nematic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-07 Yizhi You , Gil Young Cho , Eduardo Fradkin

The experimental discoveries of fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects under zero magnetic fields in both transition metal dichalcogenide and pentalayer graphene moir\'e superlattices have aroused significant research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhongqing Guo , Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

In the context of the fractional quantum Hall effect, we investigate Laughlin's celebrated ansatz for the groud state wave function at fractional filling of the lowest Landau level. Interpreting its normalization in terms of a one component…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 P. Di Francesco , M. Gaudin , C. Itzykson , F. Lesage

We present a pedagogical review of the physics of fractional Chern insulators with a particular focus on the connection to the fractional quantum Hall effect. While the latter conventionally arises in semiconductor heterostructures at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi