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The coupled-wire construction provides a useful way to obtain microscopic Hamiltonians for various two-dimensional topological phases, among which fractional quantum Hall states are paradigmatic examples. Using the recently introduced flux…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-23 Yohei Fuji , Akira Furusaki

The Fibonacci topological order is the simplest platform for a universal topological quantum computer, consisting of a single type of non-Abelian anyon, $\tau$, with fusion rule $\tau\times\tau=1+\tau$. While it has been proposed that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-16 Hart Goldman , Ramanjit Sohal , Eduardo Fradkin

Strongly correlated fractional quantum Hall liquids support fractional excitations, which can be understood in terms of adiabatic flux insertion arguments. A second route to fractionalization is through the coupling of weakly interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-04 Armin Rahmani , Rodrigo A. Muniz , Ivar Martin

We explain how (perturbed) boundary conformal field theory allows us to understand the tunneling of edge quasiparticles in non-Abelian topological states. The coupling between a bulk non-Abelian quasiparticle and the edge is due to resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Paul Fendley , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

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

We theoretically investigate the nature of the state at quarter filled lowest Landau level and predict that, as the quantum well width is increased, a transition occurs from the composite fermion Fermi sea into a novel non-Abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-10 William N. Faugno , Ajit C. Balram , Maissam Barkeshli , Jainendra K. Jain

We study continuous quantum phase transitions that can occur in bilayer fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems as the interlayer tunneling and interlayer repulsion are tuned. We introduce a slave-particle gauge theory description of a series…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-21 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Gang Wen

We consider an interface between two non-Abelian quantum Hall states: the Moore-Read state, supporting anyons of Ising type, and the k=2 NASS (non-Abelian spin-singlet) state, supporting anyons of Fibonacci type. It is shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Eytan Grosfeld , Kareljan Schoutens

We study quasiparticle tunneling between the edges of a non-Abelian topological state. The simplest examples are a p+ip superconductor and the Moore-Read Pfaffian non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall state; the latter state may have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Paul Fendley , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

Several topological orders have been proposed to explain the quantum Hall plateau at $\nu=5/2$. The observation of an upstream neutral mode on the sample edge [Bid et al., Nature (London) 466, 585 (2010)] supports the non-Abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Guang Yang , D. E. Feldman

The construction of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states from the two-dimensional array of quantum wires provides a useful way to control strong interactions in microscopic models and has been successfully applied to the Laughlin,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Y. Fuji , P. Lecheminant

We construct a coupled wire model for a sequence of non-Abelian quantum Hall states occurring at filling factors $\nu=2/(2M+q)$ with integers $M$ and even(odd) integers $q$ for fermionic(bosonic) states. They are termed $Z_2 \times Z_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Pok Man Tam , Yichen Hu , Charles L. Kane

A proposal of the existence of an {\em Anomalous} phase ($\mathcal{A}$ phase) [https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.056202 Das et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056202 (2023)] at the experimental range of moderate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Sudipto Das , Sahana Das , Sudhansu S. Mandal

The recent measurement of a half-integer thermal conductance for the $\nu=5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state has confirmed its non-Abelian nature, making the question of the underlying topological order highly intriguing. We analyze the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Jinhong Park , Christian Spånslätt , Yuval Gefen , Alexander D. Mirlin

When a fermionic quantum Hall system is projected into the lowest Landau level, there is an exact particle-hole symmetry between filling fractions $\nu$ and $1-\nu$. We investigate whether a similar symmetry can emerge in bosonic quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-30 Scott D. Geraedts , Cecile Repellin , Chong Wang , Roger S. K. Mong , T. Senthil , Nicolas Regnault

It is an important open problem to understand the landscape of non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall phases which can be obtained starting from physically motivated theories of Abelian composite particles. We show that progress on this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-11 Hart Goldman , Ramanjit Sohal , Eduardo Fradkin

We discuss the emergence of non-Abelian zero modes from twist defects in Abelian topological phases. We consider a setup built from a fractional quantum Hall (or a fractional Chern insulator)-superconductor heterostructure, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Gustavo M. Yoshitome , Pedro R. S. Gomes

We present a comprehensive numerical study of a microscopic model of the fractional quantum Hall system at filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, based on the disc geometry. Our model includes Coulomb interaction and a semi-realistic confining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xin Wan , Zi-Xiang Hu , E. H. Rezayi , Kun Yang

Non-abelian anyons are prospective candidates for fault-tolerant topological quantum computation due to their long-range entanglement. Curiously these quasiparticles are charge-neutral, hence elusive to most conventional measurement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Bivas Dutta , Vladimir Umansky , Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum

We propose a one-parameter variational ansatz to describe the tunneling-driven Abelian to non-Abelian transition in bosonic $\nu=1/2+1/2$ fractional quantum Hall bilayers. This ansatz, based on exact matrix product states, captures the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Valentin Crépel , Benoit Estienne , Nicolas Regnault