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With the recent observation of graphene-like Landau levels at the surface of topological insulators, the possibility of fractional quantum Hall effect, which is a fundamental signature of strong correlations, has become of interest. Some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Ashley M. DaSilva

Two dimensional electron systems exhibiting the fractional quantum Hall effects are characterized by a quantized Hall conductance and a dissipationless bulk. The transport in these systems occurs only at the edges where gapless excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Hoang K. Nguyen , Ganpathy Murthy

We report on our accurate evaluation of spin polarizations of the ground state and particle-hole gaps for partially-filled lowest Landau level, observed in recent experiments on graphene subjected to ultra-high magnetic fields. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tapash Chakraborty , Pekka Pietilainen

In a Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer, an electronic state in Landau level $% N=0$ is described by its guiding-center index $X$ (in the Landau gauge) and by its valley, spin, and orbital indices $\xi =\pm K,\sigma =\pm 1,$ and $% n=0,1.$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 J. Lambert , R. Côté

We report on magneto-transport studies of dual-gated, Bernal-stacked trilayer graphene (TLG) encapsulated in boron nitride crystals. We observe a quantum Hall effect staircase which indicates a complete lifting of the twelve-fold degeneracy…

Monolayer graphene under a strong magnetic field near charge neutrality manifests the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects. Since only some of the four spin/valley flavors available to the electrons in each Landau level manifold are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jincheng An , Ajit C. Balram , Udit Khanna , Ganpathy Murthy

Unlike regular electron spin, the pseudospin degeneracy of Fermi points in graphene does not couple directly to magnetic field. Therefore, graphene provides a natural vehicle to observe the integral and fractional quantum Hall physics in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Csaba Toke , Paul E. Lammert , Jainendra K. Jain , Vincent H. Crespi

The quantum-Hall-effect (QHE) occurs in topologically-ordered states of two-dimensional (2d) electron-systems in which an insulating bulk-state coexists with protected 1d conducting edge-states. Owing to a unique topologically imposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Guohong Li , Adina Luican , Dmitry Abanin , Leonid Levitov , Eva Y. Andrei

We present a supersymmetric description of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in graphene. The noninteracting system is supersymmetric separately at the so-called K and K' points of the Brillouin zone corners. Its essential consequence is that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-15 Motohiko Ezawa

Interesting non-Abelian states, e.g., the Moore-Read Pfaffian and the anti-Pfaffian, offer candidate descriptions of the $\nu = 5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state. But the significant controversy surrounding the nature of the $\nu = 5/2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-16 Kiryl Pakrouski , Michael R. Peterson , Thierry Jolicoeur , Vito W. Scarola , Chetan Nayak , Matthias Troyer

We investigate integer and half-integer filling states (uniform and unidimensional stripe states respectively) for graphene using the Hartree-Fock approximation. For fixed filling factor, the ratio between the scales of the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Jianhui Wang , A. Iyengar , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey

Bilayer graphene has been predicted to give unprecedented tunability of the electron-electron interaction with the help of external parameters, allowing one to stabilize different fractional quantum Hall states. Recent experimental works…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-15 Kyrylo Snizhko , Vadim Cheianov , Steven H. Simon

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect and the quantum valley Hall (QVH) effect are three peculiar topological insulating phases in graphene. They are characterized by three different types of edge states. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

We study the effects of spin orbit interactions on the low energy electronic structure of a single plane of graphene. We find that in an experimentally accessible low temperature regime the symmetry allowed spin orbit potential converts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Because of its large density-of-states and the 2{\pi} Berry phase near its low-energy band-contact points, neutral bilayer graphene (BLG) at zero magnetic field (B) is susceptible to chiral-symmetry breaking, leading to a variety of gapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 J. Velasco , Y. Lee , Fan Zhang , Kevin Myhro , David Tran , Michael Deo , Dmitry Smirnov , A. H. MacDonald , C. N. Lau

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

The quantum Hall effect near the charge neutrality point in bilayer graphene is investigated in high magnetic fields of up to 35 T using electronic transport measurements. In the high field regime, the eight-fold degeneracy in the zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Zhao , P. Cadden-Zimansky , Z. Jiang , P. Kim

The physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect is the physics of interacting electrons confined to a macroscopically degenerate Landau level. In this Chapter we discuss the theory of the quantum Hall effect in systems where the electrons…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Girvin , A. H. MacDonald

We present an approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect observed in grapheme (GFQHE), basing us on the model developed previously for the fractional quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system embedded in a quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 M. A. Hidalgo

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