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While the simplest quantum Hall plateaus, such as the $\nu = 1/3$ state in GaAs, can be conveniently analyzed by assuming only a single active Landau level participates, for many phases the spin, valley, bilayer, subband, or higher Landau…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-16 Michael P. Zaletel , Roger S. K. Mong , Frank Pollmann , Edward H. Rezayi

Collective modes of exotic quantum fluids reveal underlying physical mechanisms responsible for emergent complex quantum ground states. We observe unexpected new collective modes in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Lingjie Du , Ursula Wurstbauer , Ken W. West , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Saeed Fallahi , Geoff C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra , Aron Pinczuk

Since the ground-breaking discovery of the quantum Hall effect, half-quantized quantum Hall plateaus have been some of the most studied and sought-after states. Their importance stems not only from the fact that they transcend the composite…

Among the extensive studies of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states, there recently appears a growing interest in the topological states with coexisting charge density wave (CDW) orders. Such states are referred to as Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Hongyu Lu , Han-Qing Wu , Bin-Bin Chen , Wang Yao , Zi Yang Meng

We study the quantum Hall states that appear in the dilute limit of rotating ultracold fermionic gases when a single hyperfine species is present. We show that the p-wave scattering translates into a pure hard-core interaction in the lowest…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Thierry Jolicoeur , Nicolas Regnault

We provide numerical evidence for composite fermion pairing in quantum Hall bilayer systems at filling $\nu=1/2 + 1/2$ for intermediate spacing between the layers. We identify the phase as $p_x + i p_y$ pairing, and construct high accuracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 Gunnar Moller , Steven H. Simon , Edward H. Rezayi

We investigate, with the help of Monte-Carlo and exact-diagonalization calculations in the spherical geometry, several compressible and incompressible candidate wave functions for the recently observed quantum Hall state at the filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-04 Z. Papic , G. Moller , M. V. Milovanovic , N. Regnault , M. O. Goerbig

Exact diagonalization of a two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field in the disk geometry shows that there exists a filling factor range in the second Landau level where the states significantly differ from those in the lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 Csaba Toke , Michael R. Peterson , Gun Sang Jeon , Jainendra K. Jain

The properties of the isotropic incompressible $\nu=5/2$ fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state are described by a paired state of composite fermions in zero (effective) magnetic field, with a uniform $p_x+ip_y$ pairing order parameter, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-19 Luiz H. Santos , Yuxuan Wang , Eduardo Fradkin

Quantum Hall states - the progenitors of the growing family of topological insulators -- are rich source of exotic quantum phases. The nature of these states is reflected in the gapless edge modes, which in turn can be classified as integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Bivas Dutta , Wenmin Yang , Ron Aharon Melcer , Hemanta Kumar Kundu , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern , David Mross

The Pfaffian state is an attractive candidate for the observed quantized Hall plateau at Landau level filling fraction $\nu=5/2$. This is particularly intriguing because this state has unusual topological properties, including quasiparticle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sankar Das Sarma , Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak

Topological phases of matter are distinguished by topological invariants, such as Chern numbers and topological spins, that quantize their response to electromagnetic currents and changes of ambient geometry. Intriguingly, in the $\nu=2/5$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Bo Yang , Ying-Hai Wu , Zlatko Papic

The particle-hole (PH) symmetry of {\em electrons} is an exact symmetry of the electronic Hamiltonian confined to a specific Landau level, and its interplay with the formation of composite fermions has attracted much attention of late. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-04 Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain

The thermal Hall conductance $K$ of the fractional quantum Hall state at filling fraction $\nu=5/2$ has recently been measured to be $K=2.5 \pi^2k_B^2T/3h$ [M. Banerjee et al., Nature ${\bf 559}$, 205 (2018)]. The half-integer value of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-11 Hamed Asasi , Michael Mulligan

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

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at filling 5/2, which is usually understood as a $p$-wave paired state of underlying quasiparticles - composite fermions, transforms into a nematic phase under pressure \cite{csathy0, csathy}. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-26 M. V. Milovanović

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect arises from strong electron correlations in a quantising magnetic field, and features exotic emergent phenomena such as electron fractionalisation. Using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Ben Currie , Evgeny Kozik

Starting from the edge reconstructed Pfaffian state and the anti-Pfaffian state for the filling fraction $\nu={5/2}$ fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state with the filled Landau levels included, we find that interactions between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-15 B. J. Overbosch , Xiao-Gang Wen

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

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