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Evidence for developing fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at filling fraction $\nu{=}1/6$ and $1/8$ has recently been reported in wide GaAs quantum wells [Wang \emph{et al.}, PRL {\bf 134}, 046502 (2025)]. In this article, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ajit C. Balram , Anirban Sharma , J. K. Jain

We relate the collective dynamic internal geometric degrees of freedom to the gauge fluctuations in $\nu=1/m$(m odd) fractional quantum Hall effects. In this way, in the lowest Landau level, a highly nontrivial quantum geometry in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-15 Xi Luo , Yong-Shi Wu , Yue Yu

Fractional Chern insulators are new realizations of fractional quantum Hall states in lattice systems without orbital magnetic field. These states can be mapped onto conventional fractional quantum Hall states through the Wannier state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-04 Ching Hua Lee , Xiao-Liang Qi

We report the observation of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) confined to an InAs/AlGaSb quantum well, using a dual-gated Hall-bar device allowing for the independent control of the vertical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 S. Komatsu , H. Irie , T. Akiho , T. Nojima , T. Akazaki , K. Muraki

Rydberg atom arrays offer promising platforms for quantum simulation of correlated quantum matter and raise great interests. This work proposes a novel stripe-lattice model with Raman superarray of Rydberg atoms to realize bosonic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-30 Ting-Fung Jeffrey Poon , Xin-Chi Zhou , Bao-Zong Wang , Tian-Hua Yang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Recently it was shown that the topological properties of $2D$ and $3D$ topological insulators are captured by a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ chiral anomaly in the boundary field theory. It remained, however, unclear whether the anomaly survives…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-05 Maciej Koch-Janusz , Zohar Ringel

We investigate a new class of topological antiferromagnetic (AF) Chern insulators driven by electronic interactions in two-dimensional systems without inversion symmetry. Despite the absence of a net magnetization, AF Chern insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-17 Kun Jiang , Sen Zhou , Xi Dai , Ziqiang Wang

Infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS) provide a powerful variational framework for two-dimensional quantum matter and have been widely used to capture bosonic topological order, including chiral spin liquids. Here we extend this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Hao Chen , Titus Neupert , Juraj Hasik

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been recently discovered in experiment using thin-film topological insulator with ferromagnetic ordering and strong spin-orbit coupling. Here we investigate the spin degree of freedom of a QAH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Jiansheng Wu , Jie Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu

We observe geometric resonance features of composite fermions on the flanks of the even denominator {\nu} = 1/2 fractional quantum Hall state in high-mobility two-dimensional electron and hole systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. A. Mueed , D. Kamburov , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We study creation of quasi-particles in fractional Chern insulators (FCI) under magnetic fields. We consider two representative models, the Kapit-Mueller model and the checkerboard model, which have distinct band properties in terms of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-14 Nozomi Higashino , Yasuhiro Tada

Fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) exemplify exotic phases of low-disorder two-dimensional (2D) electron systems when electron-electron interaction dominates over the thermal and kinetic energies. Particularly intriguing among the FQHSs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Chengyu Wang , A. Gupta , S. K Singh , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional bulk insulator with a non-zero Chern number in absence of external magnetic fields. Protected gapless chiral edge states enable dissipationless current transport in electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Hai-Jun Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems is explained by the emergent composite fermions (CF) out of ordinary electrons. It is possible to write down explicit wavefunctions explaining many if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Thierry Jolicoeur

We numerically compute the guiding center static structure factor $\bar S(\bf k)$ of various fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states to $\mathcal{O}\left((k\ell)^6\right)$ where $k$ is the wavenumber and $\ell$ is the magnetic length.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-01 Prashant Kumar , F. D. M. Haldane

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

Fractal lattices, featuring the self-similarity symmetry, are often geometric descents of parent crystals, possessing all their discrete symmetries (such as rotations and reflections) except the translational ones. Here, we formulate three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Daniel J. Salib , Aiden J. Mains , Bitan Roy

Fractional Quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a unique many-body phenomenon, which was discovered in a two-dimensional electron system placed in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. It is entirely due to the electron-electron interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Vadym Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

In topological bands, it is impossible to construct exponentially localized Wannier functions while preserving the symmetries. Instead, in quantum Hall systems, one can define an overcomplete basis of spatially localized coherent states. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Nobuyuki Okuma

The recent discovery of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states - fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states realized without an external magnetic field - in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers represents a significant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-15 Aamir A. Makki , Mytraya Gattu , J. K. Jain