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The fractional quantum Hall state (FQHS) observed in the lowest Landau level at filling factor $\nu=1/2$ in wide quantum wells has been enigmatic for decades because the two-dimensional electron system (2DES) has a bilayer charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Siddharth Kumar Singh , Chengyu Wang , Adbhut Gupta , Kirk W. Baldwin , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Mansour Shayegan

Electrons in two dimensions and strong magnetic fields effectively lose their kinetic energy and display exotic behavior dominated by Coulomb forces. When the ratio of electrons to magnetic flux quanta in the system is near 5/2, the unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vivek Venkatachalam , Amir Yacoby , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West

The 2D system of electron confined to the lowest Landau level is described using a representation of the density matrix depending both on electron and hole coordinates. Condensation of the electron system into a fractional quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Beran

Laughlin's wave functions, describing the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factors $\nu=1/(2k+1)$, can be obtained as correlation functions in conformal field theory, and recently this construction was extended to Jain's composite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-22 E. J. Bergholtz , T. H. Hansson , M. Hermanns , A. Karlhede , S. Viefers

We consider the issue of the appropriate underlying wavefunction describing the enigmatic 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), the only even denominator FQHE unambiguously observed in a single layer two dimensional (2D) electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 S. Das Sarma , G. Gervais , Xiaoqing Zhou

Quantum Hall bilayer systems at filling fractions near \nu = 1/2 + 1/2 undergo a transition from a compressible phase with strong intralayer correlation to an incompressible phase with strong interlayer correlations as the layer separation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-19 Gunnar Moller , Steven H Simon , Edward H Rezayi

Here we show that the Pfaffian state proposed for the $\frac52$ fractional quantum Hall states in conventional two-dimensional electron systems can be readily realized in a bilayer graphene at one of the Landau levels. The properties and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

We present a detailed analysis of finite frequency noise for the $\nu=5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state in a quantum point contact geometry. The results are obtained within the Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian models. We show that the behaviour…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-30 M. Carrega , D. Ferraro , A. Braggio , N. Magnoli , M. Sassetti

We observe fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the even-denominator Landau level filling factor $\nu=1/2$ in two-dimensional hole systems confined to GaAs quantum wells of width 30 to 50 nm and having bilayer-like charge distributions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Yang Liu , A. L. Graninger , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler

By exactly solving the effective two-body interaction for two-dimensional electron system with layer thickness and an in-plane magnetic field, we recently found that the effective interaction can be described by the generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-05 Lin-Peng Yang , Qi Li , Zi-Xiang Hu

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

We determine the wave functions for arbitrarily polarized quantum Hall states by employing the doublet model which has been proposed recently to describe arbitrarily polarized quantum Hall states. Our findings recover the well known fully…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Sudhansu S. Mandal , V. Ravishankar

We theoretically investigate the nature of the state at quarter filled lowest Landau level and predict that, as the quantum well width is increased, a transition occurs from the composite fermion Fermi sea into a novel non-Abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-10 William N. Faugno , Ajit C. Balram , Maissam Barkeshli , Jainendra K. Jain

Analyzing the effective conformal field theory for the parafermionic Hall states, corresponding to filling fractions nu_k=2+k/(kM+2), k=2,3,..., M odd, we show that the even k plateaux are expected to be more stable than their odd k…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lachezar Georgiev

We report on fixed phase diffusion Monte Carlo calculations that show that, even for a large amount of Landau level mixing, the energies of the Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian phases remain very nearly the same, as also do the excitation gaps at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-04 G J Sreejith , Yuhe Zhang , J K Jain

The observation of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in 2D electron gases ushered in investigations of topological phases driven by strong electron correlations. Their remarkable features include fractionalized elementary…

The nature of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states is determined by the interplay between the Coulomb interaction and the symmetries of the system. The unique combination of spin, valley, and orbital degeneracies in bilayer graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Angela Kou , Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Bertrand I. Halperin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amir Yacoby

The tunneling current and shot noise of the current between two Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) edges in the $ \nu=12/5 $ FQH state in electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer are studied. It is shown that the tunneling current and shot noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-21 K. T. Law

The Pfaffian state, which may describe the quantized Hall plateau observed at Landau level filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, can support topologically-protected qubits with extremely low error rates. Braiding operations also allow perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak , Kevin Walker

The unexpected appearance of a fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) plateau at $\nu=2+6/13$~ [Kumar \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 105}, 246808 (2010)] offers a clue into the physical mechanism of the FQHE in the second Landau level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-05 Ajit C. Balram , Sutirtha Mukherjee , Kwon Park , Maissam Barkeshli , Mark S. Rudner , J. K. Jain