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Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states are examples of symmetry-enriched topological states (SETs): in addition to the intrinsic topological order, which is robust to symmetry breaking, they possess symmetry-protected topological invariants,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-23 Naren Manjunath , Maissam Barkeshli

We study a model fractional quantum Hall (FQH) wavefunction called the Gaffnian state, which is believed to represent a gapless, strongly correlated state that is very different from conventional metals. To understand this exotic gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-21 Byungmin Kang , Joel E. Moore

We present a detailed experimental study of the particle-hole symmetry (PHS) of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states about half filling in a multiband system. Specifically, we focus on the lowest Landau level of the monolayer-like band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Simrandeep Kaur , Harsimran Singh , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Unmesh Ghorai , Manish Jain , Rajdeep Sensarma , Aveek Bid

It was recently discovered that fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states can be classified by the way ground state wave functions go to zero when electrons are brought close together. Quasiparticles in the FQH states can be classified in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Gang Wen

Despite the high overlap with the exact Coulomb ground state, the so-called Gaffnian state fails to describe the incompressibility at the 2/5 quantum Hall filling factor and consequently it was conjectured to be a quantum critical state. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Sahana Das , Sudipto Das , Sutirtha Mukherjee , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We show that there is an emergent lattice description for the continuous fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems, with a generalised set of few-body coherent states. In particular, model Hamiltonians of the FQH effect are equivalent to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Bo Yang

Even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing due to their underlying non-Abelian topological orders. However, the topological order of these states remains hotly debated.…

We compare quantum Hall systems at filling factor 2 to those at filling factors 2/3 and 2/5, corresponding to the exact filling of two lowest electron or composite fermion (CF) Landau levels. The two fractional states are examples of CF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Vyborny , O. Certik , D. Pfannkuche , D. Wodzinski , A. Wojs , J. J. Quinn

We show that every even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state possesses at least two robust, topologically distinct gapless edge phases if charge conservation is broken at the boundary by coupling to a superconductor. The new edge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-24 Maissam Barkeshli , Chetan Nayak

The correlations that give rise to incompressible quantum liquid (IQL) states in fractional quantum Hall systems are determined by the pseudopotential $V(\mathcal R)$ describing the interaction of a pair of Fermions in a degenerate Landau…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 John J. Quinn , Arkadiusz Wójs , Kyung-Soo Yi , George Simion

The fractional quantum Hall state (FQHS), an incompressible liquid state hosting anyonic excitations with fractional charge and statistics, represents a compelling many-body phase observed in clean two-dimensional (2D) carrier systems. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Chengyu Wang , A. Gupta , S. K. Singh , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

Fractional quantum Hall states are the most prominent example of states with topological order, hosting excitations with fractionalized charge. Recent experiments in twisted $\text{MoTe}_2$ and graphene-based heterostructures provided…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Fabian Pichler , Wilhelm Kadow , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Michael Knap

The even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) in half-filled Landau levels are generally believed to host non-Abelian quasiparticles and be of potential use in topological quantum computing. Of particular interest is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Chengyu Wang , A. Gupta , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

Some fractional quantum Hall states observed in experiments may be described by first-quantized wavefunctions with special clustering properties like the Moore-Read Pfaffian for filling factor nu = 5/2. This wavefunction has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 M. V. Milovanović , Th. Jolicœur , I. Vidanović

Quantum Hall states at filling fraction $\nu$=5/2 are examined by numerical diagonalization. Spin-polarized and -unpolarized states of systems with $N\le 18$ electrons are studied, neglecting effects of Landau level mixing. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rudolf H. Morf

A two-dimensional electron system exposed to a strong magnetic field produces a plethora of strongly interacting fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, the complex topological orders of which are revealed through exotic emergent particles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ke Huang , Ajit C. Balram , Hailong Fu , Chengqi Guo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jainendra K. Jain , Jun Zhu

We investigated the behavior of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in a two-dimensional electron system with layer thickness and an in-plane magnetic field. Our comparisons across various filling factors within the first Landau level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-26 Dan Ye , Chen-Xin Jiang , Zi-Xiang Hu

By exactly solving the effective two-body interaction for two-dimensional electron system with layer thickness and an in-plane magnetic field, we recently found that the effective interaction can be described by the generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-05 Lin-Peng Yang , Qi Li , Zi-Xiang Hu

The interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking and topology can result in exotic quantum states of matter. A celebrated example is the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state, which exhibits an integer quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic…

The Pfaffian state, which may describe the quantized Hall plateau observed at Landau level filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, can support topologically-protected qubits with extremely low error rates. Braiding operations also allow perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak , Kevin Walker