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Motivated by the recent experimental breakthrough on the observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effects in semiconductor and graphene moir\'{e} materials, we explore the rich physics associated with the coexistence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-27 Xue-Yang Song , Chao-Ming Jian , Liang Fu , Cenke Xu

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect arises from strong electron correlations in a quantising magnetic field, and features exotic emergent phenomena such as electron fractionalisation. Using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Ben Currie , Evgeny Kozik

Topological states of matter are characterized by topological invariant, which are physical quantities whose values are quantized and do not depend on details of the measured system. Of these, the easiest to probe in experiments is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Dima E. Feldman , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern

We study the quantum phase transitions of a disordered two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall insulator with $s$-wave superconducting proximity, which are governed by the percolation theory of chiral Majorana fermions. Based on symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 Biao Lian , Jing Wang , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the second orbital Landau level at filling factor 5/2 remains enigmatic and motivates our work. We consider the effect of the quasi-2D nature of the experimental FQH system on a number of FQH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael R. Peterson , Th. Jolicoeur , S. Das Sarma

The Pfaffian model has been proposed for the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at nu=5/2. We examine it for the quasihole excitations by comparison with exact diagonalization results. Specifically, we consider the structure of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 Csaba Toke , Nicolas Regnault , Jainendra K. Jain

Multicomponent quantum Hall systems with internal degrees of freedom provide a fertile ground for the emergence of exotic quantum liquids. Here we investigate the possibility of non-Abelian topological order in the half-filled fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-04 W. Zhu , Zhao Liu , F. D. M. Haldane , D. N. Sheng

We investigate the phases and phase transitions of the disordered Haldane model in the presence of on-site disorder. We use the real-space Chern marker and transfer matrices to extract critical exponents over a broad range of parameters.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-29 J. Mildner , M. D. Caio , G. Möller , N. R. Cooper , M. J. Bhaseen

The nature of the state at low Landau-level filling factors has been a longstanding puzzle in the field of the fractional quantum Hall effect. While theoretical calculations suggest that a crystal is favored at filling factors $\nu\lesssim…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-20 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Ajit C. Balram , Songyang Pu , Jianyun Zhao , Thierry Jolicoeur , A. Wójs , J. K. Jain

The interplay between interaction and disorder-induced localization is of fundamental interest. This article addresses localization physics in the fractional quantum Hall state, where both interaction and disorder have nonperturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Songyang Pu , G. J. Sreejith , J. K. Jain

We report an experimental investigation of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the even-denominator Landau level filling factor $\nu$ = 1/2 in very high quality wide GaAs quantum wells, and at very high magnetic fields up to 45 T. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 J. Shabani , Y. Liu , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

The fractional quantum Hall effect, where plateaus in the Hall resistance at values of coexist with zeros in the longitudinal resistance, results from electron correlations in two dimensions under a strong magnetic field. Current flows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Dolev , M. Heiblum , V. Umansky , Ady Stern , D. Mahalu

The anomalous Floquet Anderson insulator (AFAI) is a two dimensional periodically driven system in which static disorder stabilizes two topologically distinct phases in the thermodynamic limit. The presence of a unit-conducting chiral edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Kun Woo Kim , Dmitry Bagrets , Tobias Micklitz , Alexander Altland

In this paper, the density-matrix renormalization group method is employed to investigate the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling fractions $\nu=1/3$ and 5/2. We first present benchmark results at both filling fractions for large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-13 Jize Zhao , D. N. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane

We report experimental studies of disorder-induced transitions between quantum-Hall, metallic, and insulating states in a very dilute two-dimensional electron system in silicon at a magnetic field corresponding to Landau level filling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. E. Furneaux , S. V. Kravchenko , Whitney Mason , G. E. Bowker , V. M. Pudalov

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a canonical example of a topological phase in a correlated 2D electron gas under strong magnetic field. While electric currents propagate as chiral downstream edge modes, chargeless upstream…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Hiroyuki Inoue , Anna Grivnin , Yuval Ronen , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

An important development in the field of the fractional quantum Hall effect has been the proposal that the 5/2 state observed in the Landau level with orbital index $n = 1$ of two dimensional electrons in a GaAs quantum well originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Youngwook Kim , Ajit C. Balram , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jainendra K. Jain , Jurgen H. Smet

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the second Landau level (SLL) likely stabilizes non-Abelian topological orders. Recently, a parton sequence has been proposed to capture many of the fractions observed in the SLL [Ajit C. Balram,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-12 Koyena Bose , Ajit C. Balram

Great efforts are currently devoted to the engineering of topological Bloch bands in ultracold atomic gases. Recent achievements in this direction, together with the possibility of tuning inter-particle interactions, suggest that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-01 Cécile Repellin , Nathan Goldman

We present the first microscopic demonstration of a disorder-pinned hole Wigner crystal (WC), providing a natural explanation for the reentrant integer quantum Hall effect observed near $\nu=2/3$, as well as its analogs in fractional Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Jihang Zhu , Yi Huang , Xiaodong Hu , Di Xiao , Ting Cao