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The quantum Hall (QH) effect in two-dimensional (2D) electrons and holes in high quality graphene samples is studied in strong magnetic fields up to 45 T. QH plateaus at filling factors $\nu=0,\pm 1,\pm 4$ are discovered at magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Zhang , Z. Jiang , J. P. Small , M. S. Purewal , Y. -W. Tan , M. Fazlollahi , J. D. Chudow , J. A. Jaszczak , H. L. Stormer , P. Kim

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 (FQHE), observed in two-dimensional (2D) charged particles at high magnetic fields, is one of the most fascinating, macroscopic manifestations of a many-body state stabilized by the strong Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , D. Kamburov , A. L. Graninger , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler

We numerically study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in bilayer graphene based on tight-binding model in the presence of disorder. Two distinct QHE regimes are identified in the full energy band separated by a critical region with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Ma , L. Sheng , R. Shen , M. Liu , D. N. Sheng

The recent discovery of the 3D quantum Hall effect in $\mathrm{HfTe_5}$ has also revealed puzzling signatures of possible 3D fractionalization. Beyond the first plateau associated with the lowest Landau band, Hall conductivity exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jun-Hong Li , Yi-Yuan Chen , Peng-Lu Zhao , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

The fractional quantum Hall effect is a very particular manifestation of electronic correlations in two-dimensional systems in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. It arises as a consequence of a strong Coulomb repulsion between electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Mark O. Goerbig

We observe fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the even-denominator Landau level filling factor $\nu=1/2$ in two-dimensional hole systems confined to GaAs quantum wells of width 30 to 50 nm and having bilayer-like charge distributions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Yang Liu , A. L. Graninger , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler

We present a different approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), focusing it as a consequence of the change in the symmetry of the Hamiltonian of every electron in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under the application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 M. A. Hidalgo

Up to almost the last two decades all the experimental results concerning the quantum Hall effect (QHE), i.e., the observation of plateaux at integer (IQHE) or fractional (FQHE) values of the constant h/e2, were related to quantum-wells in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 M. A. Hidalgo

We theoretically study the electronic band structure and the Hall effect in the negatively-curved three-dimensional (3D) graphene network in magnetic fields. We found that special energy regions appear above and below the zero-energy Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Toshiki Kiryu , Mikito Koshino

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a robust topological phenomenon featuring quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. We report the QAHE in a rhombohedral pentalayer graphene/monolayer WS2 heterostructure. Distinct from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Chiho Yoon , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Fan Zhang , Long Ju

I give a brief review of higher dimensional quantum Hall effect (QHE) and how one can use a general framework to describe the lowest Landau level dynamics as a noncommutative field theory whose semiclassical limit leads to anomaly free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-12 Dimitra Karabali

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, a topologically non-trivial quantum phase, expanded and brought into focus the concept of topological order in physics. The topologically protected quantum Hall edge states are of crucial importance to the QH…

Recent successes in manufacturing of atomically thin graphite samples (graphene) have stimulated intense experimental and theoretical activity. The key feature of graphene is the massless Dirac type of low-energy electron excitations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We analyze the electronic properties of a simple stacking defect in Bernal graphite. We show that a bound state forms, which disperses as $|\bfk-\bfK|^3$ in the vicinity of either of the two inequivalent zone corners $\bfK$. In the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel P. Arovas , Francisco Guinea

In two-dimensional (2D) electron systems under strong magnetic fields, interactions can cause fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects. Bringing two 2D conductors to proximity, a new set of correlated states can emerge due to interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bertrand Halperin , Philip Kim

When electrons moving in two-dimensions (2D) are subjected to a strong uniform magnetic field, they form flat bands called Landau levels, which are the basis for the quantum Hall effect. Landau levels can also arise from pseudomagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Zheyu Cheng , Yi-jun Guan , Haoran Xue , Yong Ge , Ding Jia , Yang Long , Shou-qi Yuan , Hong-xiang Sun , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

The Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE) is a distinctive phase of two-dimensional electronic systems subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. Thus far, the IQHE has been observed in semiconductor heterostructures and in mono- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Kumar , W. Escoffier , J. M. Poumirol , C. Faugeras , D. P. Arovas , M. M. Fogler , F. Guinea , S. Roche , M. Goiran , B. Raquet

The reason why the half-integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) is suppressed in graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is unclear. We propose that it might be connected to extended defects in the material and present results for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Anders Bergvall , Johan M. Carlsson , Tomas Lofwander

Theoretical studies of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in graphene have so far focused on the plausibility and stability of the previously known FQHE states for the interaction matrix elements appropriate for graphene. We consider…

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