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In this article we review the quantum Hall physics of graphene based two-dimensional electron systems, with a special focus on recent experimental and theoretical developments. We explain why graphene and bilayer graphene can be viewed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yafis Barlas , Kun Yang , A. H. MacDonald

We numerically study the three-dimensional (3D) quantum Hall effect (QHE) and magnetothermoelectric transport of Weyl semimetals in the presence of disorder. We obtain a bulk picture that the exotic 3D QHE emerges in a finite range of Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 R. Ma , D. N. Sheng , L. Sheng

We show that a thin film of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3DTI) with an exchange field is a realization of the famous Haldane model for quantum Hall effect (QHE) without Landau levels. The exchange field plays the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Huichao Li , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Unconventional fermions with high degeneracies in three dimensions beyond Weyl and Dirac fermions have sparked tremendous interest in condensed matter physics. Here, we study quantum Hall effects (QHEs) in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Yong Xu , L. -M. Duan

We review the theoretical basis and understanding of electronic interactions in graphene Landau levels, in the limit of strong correlations. This limit occurs when inter-Landau-level excitations may be omitted because they belong to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault

To fully appreciate the impacts that the discovery of the quantum Hall effect had on electrical metrology, it may benefit the reader to cultivate a general understanding of the phenomenon. Two-dimensional electron systems can exhibit many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Albert F. Rigosi

We investigate the quantum Hall effect in graphene. We argue that in graphene in presence of an external magnetic field there is dynamical generation of mass by a rearrangement of the Dirac sea. We show that the mechanism breaks the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Paolo Cea

The discovery of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in 1980 marked a turning point in condensed matter physics: given appropriate experimental conditions, the Hall conductivity {\sigma}_xy of a two-dimensional (2D) electron system is exactly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Johannes Gooth , Stanislaw Galeski , Tobias Meng

Starting from the photon self-energy tensor in a magnetized medium, the 3D complete antisymmetric form of the conductivity tensor is found in the static limit of a fermion system $C$ non-invariant under fermion-antifermion exchange. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 A. Pérez Martínez , E. Rodriguez Querts , H. Pérez Rojas , R. Gaitan , S. Rodriguez Romo

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 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

We address the question of the stability of the (fractional) quantum Hall effect (QHE) in presence of pseudomagnetic disorder generated by mechanical deformations of a graphene sheet. Neglecting the potential disorder and taking into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrey A. Bagrov , Alessandro Principi , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

The edge states in the integer quantum Hall effect are known to be significantly affected by electrostatic interactions leading to the formation of compressible and incompressible strips at the boundaries of Hall bars. We show here, in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 H. Hettmansperger , F. Duerr , J. B. Oostinga , C. Gould , B. Trauzettel , L. W. Molenkamp

The quantum Hall effect (QHE) is a topologically protected phenomenon which has been observed in various systems. In experiments, the size of Hall bar device to realize the QHE is generally much larger than the phase coherence length, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Fang Jing-Yun , Guo Ai-Min , Sun Qing-Feng

The dynamics responsible for lifting the degeneracy of the Landau levels in the quantum Hall (QH) effect in graphene is studied by utilizing a low-energy effective model with a contact interaction. A detailed analysis of the solutions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a topological state of matter with a quantized Hall resistance. It has been observed in some two-dimensional insulating materials such as magnetic topological insulator films and twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Zhenyu Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

In graphene, which is an atomic layer of crystalline carbon, two of the distinguishing properties of the material are the charge carriers two-dimensional and relativistic character. The first experimental evidence of the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Fabian Duerr , Adina Luican , Eva Y. Andrei

We derive an effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian to describe the low energy electronic excitations of a graphite bilayer, which correspond to chiral quasiparticles with a parabolic dispersion exhibiting Berry phase $2\pi$. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) hosts the dissipationless chiral edge states associated with the nonzero Chern number, providing potentially significant applications in future spintronics. The QAHE usually occurs in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Y. J. Jin , R. Wang , B. W. Xia , B. B. Zheng , H. Xu

The quantum Hall effect is observed in a two-dimensional electron gas formed in millimeter-scale hydrogenated graphene, with a mobility less than 10 $\mathrm{cm^{2}/V\cdot s}$ and corresponding Ioffe-Regel disorder parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 J. Guillemette , S. S. Sabri , B. Wu , K. Bennaceur , P. E. Gaskell , M. Savard , P. L. Lévesque , F. Mahvash , A. Guermoune , M. Siaj , R. Martel , T. Szkopek , G. Gervais