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An effective Chern-Simons theory for the quantum Hall states with edges is studied by treating the edge and bulk properties in a unified fashion. An exact steady-state solution is obtained for a half-plane geometry using the Wiener-Hopf…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jun'ichi Shiraishi , Mahito Kohmoto

We derive a microscopic theory of the composite fermions describing the low-lying edge excitations in the fractional quantum Hall liquid. Using the composite fermion transformation, one finds that the edge states of the $\nu=1/m$ system in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yue Yu , Wenjun Zheng , Zhongyuan Zhu

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a canonical example of a topological phase in a correlated 2D electron gas under strong magnetic field. While electric currents propagate as chiral downstream edge modes, chargeless upstream…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Hiroyuki Inoue , Anna Grivnin , Yuval Ronen , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

We study the realization of conformal symmetry in the QHE as part of the $W_\infty$ algebra. Conformal symmetry can be realized already at the classical level and implies the complexification of coordinate space. Its quantum version is not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose Gaite

The vapor-liquid critical behavior of intrinsically asymmetric fluids is studied in finite systems of linear dimensions, $L$, focusing on periodic boundary conditions, as appropriate for simulations. The recently propounded ``complete''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Young C. Kim , Michael E. Fisher

This paper investigates the bulk and boundary dynamics of Laughlin states, which are modeled using composite boson theory within a fluid dynamics framework. In this work, we adopt an alternative starting point based on a hydrodynamic action…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Gustavo M. Monteiro , V. P. Nair , Sriram Ganeshan

The beyond-mean-field corrections appropriate to a bosonic many-body system experiencing a density-dependent gauge potential are derived, and from this the dimensional hierarchy of quantum droplet solutions are explored. Non-stationary…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-28 Matthew Edmonds , Patrik Öhberg

Extended objects (defects) in Quantum Field Theory exhibit rich, nontrivial dynamics describing a variety of physical phenomena. These systems often involve strong coupling at long distances, where the bulk and defects interact, making…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Andrea Antinucci , Christian Copetti , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

The distribution of electron density in the quantum Hall liquid is considered in the presence of macroscopic density gradient caused by side electrodes or inhomogeneous doping. In this case different Landau levels are occupied in different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. L. Efros

One of the central tenets of the theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect is that the bulk quantized Hall response requires the existence of a gapless chiral edge mode. The field theoretical arguments for this rely on locality. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Daniel Spasic-Mlacak , Nigel R. Cooper

We apply a voltage pulse to electrically excite the incompressible region of a two-dimensional electron liquid in the $\nu=2/3$ fractional quantum Hall state and investigate the collective excitations in both the edge and bulk via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Quentin France , Yunhyeon Jeong , Akinori Kamiyama , Takaaki Mano , Ken-ichi Sasaki , Masahiro Hotta , Go Yusa

One of the most intriguing and fundamental properties of topological materials is the correspondence between the conducting edge states and the gapped bulk spectrum. So far, it has been impossible to access the full evolution of edge states…

The effects of impurity scattering on a general Abelian fractional quantum Hall (FQH) edge state are analyzed within the chiral-Luttinger-liquid model of low-energy edge dynamics. We find that some disordered edges can have several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Joel E. Moore , Xiao-Gang Wen

We analyze the effect that the Coulomb interaction has on the edge excitations of an electron gas confined in a bar of thickness $W$, and in presence of a magnetic field corresponding to filling factor 1 Quantum Hall effect. We find that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Franco , L. Brey

For the numerical simulation of the fractional quantum Hall effects on a finite disk, the rotational symmetry is the only symmetry that were used in diagonalizing the Hamiltonian. In this work, we propose a method of using the weak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-03 Wu-Qing Yang , Qi Li , Lin-Peng Yang , Zi-Xiang Hu

The single-particle spectral function for an incompressible fractional quantum Hall state in the presence of a scalar short-ranged attractive impurity potential is calculated via exact diagonalization within the spherical geometry. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Kelly R. Patton , Michael R. Geller

We present a theoretical study of the excitations on the edge of a two-dimensional electron system in a perpendicular magnetic field in terms of a contour dynamics formalism. In particular, we focus on edge excitations in the quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Wexler , Alan T. Dorsey

In this letter, we investigate the dissipative dynamics at the edge of Laughlin fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states starting from the hydrodynamic framework of the composite Boson theory recently developed in arXiv:2203.06516. Critical to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Gustavo M. Monteiro , Dylan Reynolds , Paolo Glorioso , Sriram Ganeshan

We show that the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect can be phenomenologically described as a special flow of a quantum incompressible Euler liquid. This flow consists of a large number of vortices of the same chirality. In this approach each…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 P. B. Wiegmann

The quantum Hall effect is investigated in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas on the surface of a cylinder. The novel topology leads to a spatially varying filling factor along the current path. The resulting inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 K. -J. Friedland , A. Siddiki , R. Hey , H. Kostial , A. Riedel , D. K. Maude