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We study non-equilibrium noise in the tunnelling current between the edges of a quantum Hall liquid in the Pfaffian state, which is a strong candidate for the plateau at $\nu=5/2$. To first non-vanishing order in perturbation theory (in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristina Bena , Chetan Nayak

We prove a generic spin-statistics relation for the fractional quasiparticles that appear in abelian quantum Hall states on the disk. The proof is based on an efficient way for computing the Berry phase acquired by a generic quasiparticle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Alberto Nardin , Eddy Ardonne , Leonardo Mazza

Through a theoretical coupled wire model, we construct strongly correlated electronic \emph{integer} quantum Hall states. As a distinguishing feature, these states support electric and thermal Hall transport violating the Wiedemann-Franz…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Pedro L. S. Lopes , V. L. Quito , Bo Han , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

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

Using the newly developed Matrix Product State (MPS) formalism for non-abelian Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) states, we address the question of whether a FQH trial wave function written as a correlation function in a non-unitary Conformal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Estienne , N. Regnault , B. A. Bernevig

Topological quantum computation has recently emerged as one of the most exciting approaches to constructing a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The proposal relies on the existence of topological states of matter whose quasiparticle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Chetan Nayak , Steven H. Simon , Ady Stern , Michael Freedman , Sankar Das Sarma

The moir\'e system provides a tunable platform for exploring exotic phases of materials. This article shows the possible realization of a non-Abelian state characterized by the Moore-Read wavefunction in a half-filled moir\'e Chern band,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-19 Lu Zhang , Xue-Yang Song

To detect non-abelian statistics in the $\nu = 12/5$ quantum Hall state through interferometry, we apply an analysis similar to the ones proposed for the non-abelian $\nu = 5/2$ quantum Hall state. The result is that the amplitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 Suk Bum Chung , Michael Stone

We show that cotunneling in the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall regime allows us to test the Moore-Read wave function, proposed for this regime, and to probe the nature of the fractional charge carriers. We calculate the cotunneling current for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Robert Zielke , Bernd Braunecker , Daniel Loss

We present evidence supporting the weakly paired Moore-Read phase in the half-filled second Landau level, focusing on some of the qualitative features of its excitations. Based on numerical studies, we show that systems with odd particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-15 Gunnar Moller , Arkadiusz Wojs , Nigel R. Cooper

Quasiparticles, which obey non abelian statistics, were predicted to exist in different physical systems, but are yet to be observed directly. Possible candidate states, which are expected to support such quasiparticles, are the {\nu}=8/3,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Dolev , Y. Gross , R. Sabo , I. Gurman , M. Heiblum , V. Umansky , D. Mahalu

We generalize the fractional quantum Hall hierarchy picture to apply to arbitrary, possibly non-Abelian, fractional quantum Hall states. Applying this to the nu = 5/2 Moore-Read state, we construct new explicit trial wavefunctions to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 Parsa Bonderson , J. K. Slingerland

Bilayer quantum Hall systems, realized either in two separated wells or in the lowest two sub-bands of a wide quantum well, provide an experimentally realizable way to tune between competing quantum orders at the same filling fraction.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Scott Geraedts , Michael P. Zaletel , Zlatko Papić , Roger S. K. Mong

Problems involving quantum impurities, in which one or a few particles are interacting with a macroscopic environment, represent a pervasive paradigm, spanning across atomic, molecular, and condensed-matter physics. In this paper we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Xiang Li , Giacomo Bighin , Enderalp Yakaboylu , Mikhail Lemeshko

We develop a hybrid Monte Carlo method to efficiently compute the physical observables from the samplings of the Laughlin and the Moore-Read wave functions of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems. With the advancements in methodology,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-20 Ting-Tung Wang , Ha Quang Trung , Qianhui Xu , Min Long , Bo Yang , Zi Yang Meng

We study non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall state in double layer systems at total filling factor $1/2$. Recent progresses in two-dimensional van der Waals materials made it possible to explore the regime with very small interlayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-24 Xiang-Jian Hou , Lei Wang , Ying-Hai Wu

It is a common knowledge that an effective interaction of a quantum impurity with an electromagnetic field can be screened by surrounding charge carriers, whether mobile or static. Here we demonstrate that very strong, `anomalous' screening…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Enderalp Yakaboylu , Mikhail Lemeshko

Breakthrough experiments have recently realized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials. However, all states observed are Abelian, the possible existence of more exotic non-Abelian FCIs remains controversial both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Hui Liu , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We construct a wavefunction, generalizing the well known Moore-Read Pfaffian, that describes spinless electrons at filling fraction nu=2/5 (or bosons at filling fraction nu=2/3) as the ground state of a very simple three body potential. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Steven H. Simon , E. H. Rezayi , N. R. Cooper , I. Berdnikov

We define a measurable spin for the edge of a lowest Landau level and incompressible fractional quantum Hall state in the presence of an Abelian or non-Abelian bulk quasiparticle. We show that this quantity takes a fractional value…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-08 Alexander Fagerlund , Alberto Nardin , Leonardo Mazza , Eddy Ardonne