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The quantum Hall effect (QHE) originates from discrete Landau levels forming in a two-dimensional (2D) electron system in a magnetic field. In three dimensions (3D), the QHE is forbidden because the third dimension spreads Landau levels…

We study the competition between the long-range Coulomb interaction, disorder scattering, and lattice effects in the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) in graphene. By direct transport calculations, both $\nu=1$ and $\nu=3$ IQHE states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane , Leon Balents

The quantum Hall liquid is a novel state of matter with profound emergent properties such as fractional charge and statistics. Existence of the quantum Hall effect requires breaking of the time reversal symmetry caused by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is extensively studied, but the explanation for Hall plateau widths and excitation energy gaps remains elusive. We study the effective theory of FQHE built upon experimental inputs of Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Jongbae Hong , Soo-Jong Rey

In this article we review the quantum Hall physics of graphene based two-dimensional electron systems, with a special focus on recent experimental and theoretical developments. We explain why graphene and bilayer graphene can be viewed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yafis Barlas , Kun Yang , A. H. MacDonald

The physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect is the physics of interacting electrons confined to a macroscopically degenerate Landau level. In this Chapter we discuss the theory of the quantum Hall effect in systems where the electrons…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Girvin , A. H. MacDonald

We present a microscopic theory to give a physical picture of the formation of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in graphene due to a joint effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling $\lambda_R$ and exchange field $M$. Based on a continuum…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-29 Zhenhua Qiao , Hua Jiang , Xiao Li , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

Monolayer graphene in a strong magnetic field exhibits quantum Hall states at filling fractions $\nu = 0$ and $\nu = \pm 1$ that are not explained within a picture of noninteracting electrons. We propose that these states arise from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Bitan Roy , Malcolm P. Kennett , S. Das Sarma

We consider a collection of fermions in a strong magnetic field coupled by a purely three body repulsive interaction, and predict the formation of composite fermions, leading to a remarkably rich phase diagram containing a host of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Arkadiusz Wojs , Csaba Toke , Jainendra K. Jain

It is shown, that a spectrum generating algebras and wave functions for the integral and fractional quantum Hall effect are related by the non-unitary similarity transformation. This transformation corresponds to the introduction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Eliashvili

We review the fermionic Chern-Simons field theory for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). We show that in this field theoretic approach to the problem of interacting electrons moving in a plane in the presence of an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Ana Lopez , Eduardo Fradkin

In this paper we give a survey of some models of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect based on noncommutative geometry. We begin by recalling some classical geometry of electrons in solids and the passage to noncommutative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matilde Marcolli , Varghese Mathai

The interaction between electrons in graphene under high magnetic fields drives the formation of a rich set of quantum Hall ferromagnetic phases (QHFM), with broken spin or valley symmetry. Visualizing atomic scale electronic wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaomeng Liu , Gelareh Farahi , Cheng-Li Chiu , Zlatko Papic , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani

We address the question of the stability of the (fractional) quantum Hall effect (QHE) in presence of pseudomagnetic disorder generated by mechanical deformations of a graphene sheet. Neglecting the potential disorder and taking into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrey A. Bagrov , Alessandro Principi , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We theoretically investigate the manipulation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in graphene by means of the uniaxial strain. The values of Chern number and Hall conductance demonstrate that the strained graphene in presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 G. S. Diniz , M. R. Guassi , F. Qu

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) stands as a quintessential manifestation of an interacting two-dimensional electron system. One of FQHE's most fundamental characteristics is the energy gap separating the incompressible ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 K. A. Villegas Rosales , P. T. Madathil , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

Experiments on the fractional quantized Hall effect in the zeroth Landau level of graphene have revealed some striking differences between filling factors in the ranges 0<|\nu|<1 and 1<|\nu|<2. We argue that these differences can be largely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Dmitry A. Abanin , Benjamin E. Feldman , Amir Yacoby , Bertrand I. Halperin

We predict a quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) in the ferromagnetic graphene under a magnetic field. Unlike the previous QSHE, this QSHE appears in the absence of any spin-orbit interaction, thus, arrived from a different physical origin. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The eigenstates of interacting electrons in the fractional quantum Hall phase typically form fairly well defined bands in the energy space. We show that the composite fermion theory gives insight into the origin of these bands and provides…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Dev , J. K. Jain

A quantum statistical theory is developed for a fractional quantum Hall effects in terms of composite bosons (fermions) each of which contains a conduction electron and an odd (even) number of fluxons. The cause of the QHE is by assumption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Shigeji Fujita , Akira Suzuki , H. C. Ho