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The residual interaction between composite fermions (CFs) can express itself through higher order fractional Hall effect. With the help of diagonalization in a truncated composite fermion basis of low-energy many-body states, we predict…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chia-Chen Chang , Sudhansu S. Mandal , Jainendra K. Jain

Proposed even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states suggest the possibility of excitations with non-Abelian braid statistics. Recent experiments on wide square quantum wells observe even-denominator FQHE even under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-14 V. W. Scarola , C. May , M. R. Peterson , M. Troyer

We report the evolution of the fractional quantum Hall state (FQHS) at even-denominator filling factor $\nu=7/2$ in wide GaAs quantum wells in which electrons occupy two electric subbands. The data reveal subtle and distinct evolutions as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Yang Liu , J. Shabani , D. Kamburov , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We have investigated the effect of unidirectional periodic potential modulation on the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states located within the filling factor range $1<\nu<2$. We find that odd-numerator FQH states are strongly suppressed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-01 A. Endo , N. Shibata , Y. Iye

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

An important development in the field of the fractional quantum Hall effect has been the proposal that the 5/2 state observed in the Landau level with orbital index $n = 1$ of two dimensional electrons in a GaAs quantum well originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Youngwook Kim , Ajit C. Balram , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jainendra K. Jain , Jurgen H. Smet

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

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) of topological surface-state particles under a tilted strong magnetic field is theoretically studied by using the exact diagonalization method. The Haldane's pseudopotentials for the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fawei Zheng , Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang

We demonstrate via exact diagonalization that AA-stacked TMD homobilayers host fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states with fractionally quantized Hall conductance at fractional fillings $n=\frac{1}{3},\, \frac{2}{3}$ and zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Aidan P. Reddy , Faisal F. Alsallom , Yang Zhang , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

We studied neutral excitations in a two-dimensional electron system with an orbital momentum $\Delta M = 1$ and spin projection over magnetic field axis $\Delta S_z = 1$ in the vicinity of a filling factor of 3/2. It is shown that the 3/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 L. V. Kulik , V. A. Kuznetsov , A. S. Zhuravlev , V. Umansky , I. V. Kukushkin

A two-dimensional electron system exposed to a strong magnetic field produces a plethora of strongly interacting fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, the complex topological orders of which are revealed through exotic emergent particles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ke Huang , Ajit C. Balram , Hailong Fu , Chengqi Guo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jainendra K. Jain , Jun Zhu

The observation of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in 2D electron gases ushered in investigations of topological phases driven by strong electron correlations. Their remarkable features include fractionalized elementary…

The search for topologically non-trivial states of matter has become an important goal for condensed matter physics. Recently, a new class of topological insulators has been proposed. These topological insulators have an insulating gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Koenig , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Taylor L. Hughes , Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We report on results of numerical studies of the spin polarization of the half filled second Landau level, which corresponds to the fractional quantum Hall state at filling factor $\nu=5/2$. Our studies are performed using both exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-01 A. E. Feiguin , E. Rezayi , Kun Yang , C. Nayak , S. Das Sarma

Using a 50-nm width, ultra-clean GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well, we have studied the Landau level filling factor $\nu = 5/2$ fractional quantum Hall effect in a perpendicular magnetic field $B \sim$ 1.7 T and determined its dependence on tilted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Guangtong Liu , Chi Zhang , D. C. Tsui , Ivan Knez , Aaron Levine , R. R. Du , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

It is well-known that the 2/5 state is unpolarized at zero Zeeman energy, while it is fully polarized at large Zeeman energies. A novel state with charge/spin density wave order for Composite Fermions is proposed to exist at intermediate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ganpathy Murthy

Topological states of matter are characterized by topological invariant, which are physical quantities whose values are quantized and do not depend on details of the measured system. Of these, the easiest to probe in experiments is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Dima E. Feldman , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern

The nature of the state at low Landau-level filling factors has been a longstanding puzzle in the field of the fractional quantum Hall effect. While theoretical calculations suggest that a crystal is favored at filling factors $\nu\lesssim…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-20 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Ajit C. Balram , Songyang Pu , Jianyun Zhao , Thierry Jolicoeur , A. Wójs , J. K. Jain

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) stands as a quintessential manifestation of an interacting two-dimensional electron system. One of FQHE's most fundamental characteristics is the energy gap separating the incompressible ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 K. A. Villegas Rosales , P. T. Madathil , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

In this work, making use of time-resolved in situ Joule heating of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the Corbino geometry, we report bulk thermal conductance measurements for the {\nu} = 5/2 and {\nu} = 7/3 fractional quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 F. Boivin , M. Petrescu , Z. Berkson-Korenberg , K. W. West L. N. Pfeiffer , G. Gervais