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The observation of extensive fractional quantum Hall states in graphene brings out the possibility of more accurate quantitative comparisons between theory and experiment than previously possible, because of the negligibility of finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-25 Ajit C. Balram , Csaba Tőke , A. Wójs , J. K. Jain

We present a supersymmetric description of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in graphene. The noninteracting system is supersymmetric separately at the so-called K and K' points of the Brillouin zone corners. Its essential consequence is that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-15 Motohiko Ezawa

There is an increasing interest in the electronic properties of few layer graphene as it offers a platform to study electronic interactions because the dispersion of bands can be tuned with number and stacking of layers in combination with…

Using high quality graphene pnp junctions, we observe prominent conductance fluctuations on transitions between quantum Hall (QH) plateaus as the top gate voltage Vtg is varied. In the Vtg-B plane, the fluctuations form crisscrossing lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jairo Velasco , Gang Liu , Lei Jing , Philip Kratz , Wenzhong Bao , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

Recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on graphene at charge neutrality under strong magnetic fields have uncovered a ground state characterized by Kekul\'e distortion (KD). In contrast, non-local spin and charge transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Nemin Wei , Guopeng Xu , Inti Sodemann Villadiego , Chunli Huang

The conductance of graphene subject to a strong, tilted magnetic field exhibits a dramatic change from insulating to conducting behavior with tilt-angle, regarded as evidence for the transition from a canted antiferromagnetic (CAF) to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-30 Pavel Tikhonov , Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

We study spin and valley ordering in the quantum Hall fractions in monolayer graphene at Landau level filling factors $\nu_G=-2+n/3$ $(n=2,4,5)$. We use exact diagonalizations on the spherical as well as toroidal geometry by taking into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Ngoc Duc Le , Thierry Jolicoeur

A graphene bilayer in a transverse magnetic field has a set of Landau levels with energies $E=\pm \sqrt{N(N+1)}\hslash \omega_{c}^{\ast}$ where $\omega_{c}^{\ast}$ is the effective cyclotron frequency and $% N=0,1,2,...$ All Landau levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 R. Cote , Wenchen Luo , Branko Petrov , Yafis Barlas , A. H. MacDonald

ABC-stacked rhombohedral graphene multilayers exhibit a wide variety of electronic ground states characterized by broken isospin symmetry and superconductivity. Recently, indirect evidence of inter-valley coherent (IVC) order has been…

We report observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in high mobility multi-terminal graphene devices, fabricated on a single crystal boron nitride substrate. We observe an unexpected hierarchy in the emergent FQHE states that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 C. R. Dean , A. F. Young , P. Cadden-Zimansky , L. Wang , H. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Kim , J. Hone , K. L. Shepard

A growing body of experimental work suggests that magic angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits a "cascade" of spontaneous symmetry breaking transitions, sparking interest in the potential relationship between symmetry-breaking and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-12 Jung Pyo Hong , Tomohiro Soejima , Michael P. Zaletel

Quantum Hall effect (QHE), the ground to construct modern conceptual electronic systems with emerging physics, is often much influenced by the interplay between the host two-dimensional electron gases and the substrate, sometimes predicted…

Breaking inversion symmetry in chiral graphene systems, \textit{e.g.}, by applying a perpendicular electric field in chirally-stacked rhombohedral multilayer graphene or by introducing staggered sublattice potentials in monolayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Xintao Bi , Jeil Jung , Zhenhua Qiao

Double layer quantum Hall systems have interesting properties associated with interlayer correlations. At $\nu =1/m$ where $m$ is an odd integer they exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking equivalent to that of spin $1/2$ easy-plane…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Kun Yang , K. Moon , L. Zheng , A. H. MacDonald , S. M. Girvin , D. Yoshioka , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Low-energy transport measurements in Quantum Hall systems have been argued to be governed by emergent modular symmetries whose predictions are robust against many of the detailed microscopic dynamics. We propose the recently-observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. P. Burgess , B. P. Dolan

Two-dimensional multi-valley electronic systems in which the dispersion of individual pockets has low symmetry give rise to quantum Hall ferroelectric and nematic states in the presence of strong quantising magnetic fields. We investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Pok Man Tam , Tongtong Liu , Inti Sodemann , Liang Fu

We use a lowest Landau level model to study the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene. This effective model is rooted in the occurrence of Chern bands which arise due to the coupling between the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-28 Nick Bultinck , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Michael P. Zaletel

The collective modes of stripes in double layer quantum Hall systems are computed using the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation. It is found that, when the system possesses spontaneous interlayer coherence, there are two gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Cote , H. A. Fertig

Graphene subject to high levels of shear strain leads to strong pseudo-magnetic fields resulting in the emergence of Landau levels. Here we show that, with modest levels of strain, graphene can also sustain a classical valley hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Xian-Peng Zhang , Chunli Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla

We develop a Fermionic Chern-Simons (CS) theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect in monolayer graphene with SU(4) symmetry, arising from the spin and the valley degrees of freedom, which involves four distinct CS gauge fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Sanhita Modak , Sudhansu S. Mandal , K. Sengupta