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Magneto-transport measurements in a clean two-dimensional electron system confined to a wide GaAs quantum well reveal that, when the electrons occupy two electric subbands, the sequences of fractional quantum Hall states observed at high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Shabani , Y. Liu , M. Shayegan

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), observed in two-dimensional (2D) charged particles at high magnetic fields, is one of the most fascinating, macroscopic manifestations of a many-body state stabilized by the strong Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , D. Kamburov , A. L. Graninger , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler

We investigate theoretically the fractional quantum Hall effect at half-filling in the lowest Landau level observed in asymmetric wide quantum wells. The asymmetry can be achieved by a potential bias applied between the two sides of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 N. Thiebaut , M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault

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

We compare the energies of different electron solids, such as bubble crystals with triangular and square symmetry and stripe phases, to those of correlated quantum liquids in partially filled intermediate Landau levels. Multiple transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Goerbig , P. Lederer , C. Morais Smith

The angular momentum model which couples the spin and charge is discussed as a possible theory of the quantum Hall effect. The high Landau level filling fractions 5/2, 7/3 and 8/3 are understood by this model. It is found that 7/3 and 8/3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Keshav N. Shrivastava

We report ultra-low temperature experiments on the obscure fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at Landau level filling factor $\nu$=5/2 in a very high mobility specimen of $\mu=1.7 \times 10^7$ cm$^2$/Vs. We achieve an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Pan , J. -S. Xia , V. Shvarts , E. D. Adams , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

In this letter, we discuss the recently proposed fractional quantum Hall effect in the absence of Landau levels. It is shown that the parton construction can explain all properties of 1/3 state, including the effective charge of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-03 Abolhassan Vaezi

The nu=5/2 fractional quantum Hall state is studied numerically, directly including the effects of electron scattering between neighboring Landau levels. Significant reduction of the excitation gap caused by the LL mixing explains the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

When a gas of electrons is confined to two dimensions, application of a strong magnetic field may lead to startling phenomena such as emergence of electron pairing. According to a theory this manifests itself as appearance of the fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-21 H. Saarikoski , E. Tolo , A. Harju , E. Rasanen

We theoretically examine entanglement in fractional quantum hall states, explicitly taking into account and emphasizing the quasi-two-dimensional nature of experimental quantum Hall systems. In particular, we study the entanglement entropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-07 J. Biddle , Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma

We study many-body ground states for the partial integer fillings of the $N=1$ Landau level in graphene, by constructing a model that accounts for the lattice scale corrections to the Coulomb interactions. Interestingly, in contrast to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Nikolaos Stefanidis , Inti Sodemann Villadiego

Due to its extremely rich phase diagram, the two-dimensional electron gas exposed to perpendicular magnetic field has been the subject of intense and sustained study. One particularly interesting problem in this system is that of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-24 Katherine A. Schreiber , Gábor A. Csáthy

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

In a recent paper (arXiv:2206.05152v4), using the exact diagonalization technique, I calculated the energy and other physical properties (electron density, pair correlation function) of a system of $N\le 7$ two-dimensional electrons at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 S. A. Mikhailov

The quantum dynamics of a two-dimensional charged spin $1/2$ particle is studied for general, symmetry--free curved surfaces and general, nonuniform magnetic fields that are, when different from zero, orthogonal to the defining two surface.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Robert Alicki , John R. Klauder , Jerzy Lewandowski

A two-dimensional quantum Hall system without disorder for a wide class of interactions including any two-body interaction with finite range is studied by using the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis method [{\it Ann. Phys. (N.Y.)} {\bf 16}: 407 (1961)].…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tohru Koma

Gated GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures were used to determine the low-temperature behavior of the two-dimensional electron gas near filling factor nu=1/2 in the disorder-magnetic-field plane. We identify a line on which sigma_{xy} is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. W. Wong , H. W. Jiang , W. J. Schaff

Magnetotransport measurements on two-dimensional electrons confined to wide GaAs quantum wells reveal a remarkable evolution of the ground state at filling factor $\nu=1/2$ as we tilt the sample in the magnetic field. Starting with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-08 Sukret Hasdemir , Yang Liu , H. Deng , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We discuss the implications of approximate particle-hole symmetry in a half-filled Landau level in which a paired quantum Hall state forms. We note that the Pfaffian state is not particle-hole symmetric. Therefore, in the limit of vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sung-Sik Lee , Shinsei Ryu , Chetan Nayak , Matthew P. A. Fisher