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We propose a density functional to find the ground state energy and density of interacting particles, where both the density and the pair density can adjust in the presence of an inhomogeneous potential. As a proof of principle we formulate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Lorenzana , Z. -J. Ying , V. Brosco

Semi-local density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy of electrons are extensively used as it produce realistic and accurate results for finite and extended systems. The choice of techniques play crucial role in constructing…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-01 Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal

In the unitary regime, fermions interact strongly via two-body potentials that exhibit a zero range and a (negative) infinite scattering length. The energy density is proportional to the free Fermi gas with a proportionality constant $\xi$.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Papenbrock

Single-component fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) at even-denominator filling factors may host non-Abelian quasiparticles that are considered to be building blocks of topological quantum computers. Such states, however, are rarely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Chengyu Wang , A. Gupta , S. K. Singh , P. T. Madathil , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

The book presents the wide range of topics in two-dimensional physics of quantum Hall systems, especially fractional quantum Hall states. It starts with the fundamental problems of quantum statistics in two dimensions and the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lucjan Jacak , Piotr Sitko , Konrad Wieczorek , Arkadiusz Wójs

The activation gap $\Delta$ of the fractional quantum Hall states at constant fillings $\nu =2/3$ and 2/5 has been measured as a function of the perpendicular magnetic field $B$. A linear dependence of $\Delta$ on $B$ is observed while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Schulze-Wischeler , E. Mariani , F. Hohls , R. J. Haug

This paper reviews progress on the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE) based on what we term hamiltonian theories, i.e., theories that proceed from the microscopic electronic hamiltonian to the final solution via a sequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

We apply reduced density-matrix functional theory to the parabolically confined quantum Hall droplet in the spin-frozen strong magnetic field regime. One-body reduced density matrix functional method performs remarkably well in obtaining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Tölö , A. Harju

The low energy physics of the fractional Hall liquid is described in terms quasiparticles that are qualitatively distinct from electrons. We show, however, that a long-lived electron-like quasiparticle also exists in the excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jainendra K. Jain , Michael R. Peterson

Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

A rich pattern of fractional quantum Hall states in graphene double layers can be naturally explained in terms of two-component composite fermions carrying both intra- and inter-layer vortices.

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-23 G. A Csathy , J. K. Jain

Measurements of the reflectivity of a 2-D electron gas are used to deduce the polarization of the Composite Fermion hole system formed for Landau level occupancies in the regime 1<\nu<2. The measurements are consistent with the formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Chughtai , V. Zhitomirsky , R. J. Nicholas , M. Henini

Most density functionals have been developed by imposing the known exact constraints on the exchange-correlation energy, or by a fit to a set of properties of selected systems, or by both. However, accurate modeling of the conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Jianmin Tao , Yuxiang Mo

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques

This chapter appears in "Fractional Quantum Hall Effects: New Development," edited by B. I. Halperin and J. K. Jain (World Scientific, 2020). The chapter begins with a primer on composite fermions, and then reviews three directions that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-30 J. K. Jain

Effect of interlayer tunneling in the double-layer fractional quantum Hall system at the total Landau level filling of $\nu=1/m$ ($m$: odd integer) is analyzed with the composite-fermion approach in which the flux attachment is directly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Nakajima , H. Aoki

Ground-state Kohn-Sham density functional theory provides, in principle, the exact ground-state energy and electronic spin-densities of real interacting electrons in a static external potential. In practice, the exact density functional for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Aaron D. Kaplan , Mel Levy , John P. Perdew

We report on an observation of a fractional quantum Hall effect in an ultra-high quality two-dimensional hole gas hosted in a strained Ge quantum well. The Hall resistance reveals precisely quantized plateaus and vanishing longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Q. Shi , M. A. Zudov , C. Morrison , M. Myronov

I summarize Density Functional Theory (DFT) in a language familiar to quantum field theorists, and introduce several apparently novel ideas for constructing {\it systematic} approximations for the density functional. I also note that, at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-11 T. Banks

We prove that the electron density function of a real physical system can be uniquely determined by its values on any finite subsystem. This establishes the existence of a rigorous density-functional theory for any open electronic system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , GuanHua Chen