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The edge states of a sample displaying the quantum Hall effect (QHE) can be described by a 1+1 dimensional (conformal) field theory of $d$ massless scalar fields taking values on a $d$-dimensional torus. It is known from the work of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. P. Balachandran , L. Chandar , B. Sathiapalan

We construct a periodically time-dependent Hamiltonian with a phase transition in the quantum Hall universality class. One spatial dimension can be eliminated by introducing a second incommensurate driving frequency, so that we can study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-20 J. P. Dahlhaus , J. M. Edge , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

We use dynamic scanning capacitance microscopy (DSCM) to image compressible and incompressible strips at the edge of a Hall bar in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) regime. This method gives access to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 M. E. Suddards , A. Baumgartner , M. Henini , C. J. Mellor

When electrons are confined in two dimensions and subjected to strong magnetic fields, the Coulomb interactions between them become dominant and can lead to novel states of matter such as fractional quantum Hall liquids. In these liquids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kirill I. Bolotin , Fereshte Ghahari , Michael D. Shulman , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

The discovery of the quantum Hall (QH) effect led to the realization of a topological electronic state with dissipationless currents circulating in one direction along the edge of a two dimensional electron layer under a strong magnetic…

The Hall effects comprise one of the oldest but most vital fields in condensed matter physics, and they persistently inspire new findings, such as quantum Hall effects and topological phases of matter. The recently discovered nonlinear Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Z. Z. Du , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Using D-brane configurations on the K3 surface, we give six dimensional type IIA stringy realizations of the Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) in 1+2 dimensions. Based on the vertical and horizontal lines of the K3 Hodge diamond, we engineer two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Adil Belhaj , Antonio Segui

After decades of searching for the dissipationless transport in the absence of any external magnetic field, quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) was recently achieved in magnetic topological insulator (TI) films. However, the universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Jing Wang , Yabin Fan , Eun Sang Choi , Wei-Li Lee , Tianxiao Nie , Koichi Murata , Qiming Shao , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Kang L. Wang

Despite the extensive literature on the quantum Hall effect (QHE), a direct derivation of the phenomenological formula $\rho_{xy} = h/e^2\nu$ from first principles has remained elusive. In this work, we revisit the Landau and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Pedro Pereyra

We exploit the analogy with the quantum Hall (QH) effect for electrons to study the possible atomic QH states of a rapidly-rotating Bose-Einstein condensate. Actually, there is a nearly perfect map of the present problem in the QH regime to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zeng-Bing Chen , Bo Zhao , Yong-De Zhang

This is a theoretical review of the quantum Hall effect observed in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors such as (TMTSF)2X. It is written for a book "Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors" to be published by Springer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-25 Victor M. Yakovenko

We present high frequency measurements of the diagonal conductivity sigma_xx of a two dimensional electron system in the integer quantum Hall regime. The width of the sigma_xx peaks between QHE minima is analyzed within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Hohls , U. Zeitler , R. J. Haug , K. Pierz

We have introduced a controllable nano-scale incursion into a potential barrier imposed across a two-dimensional electron gas, and report on the phenomena that we observe as the incursion develops. In the quantum Hall regime, the…

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) of topological surface-state particles under a tilted strong magnetic field is theoretically studied by using the exact diagonalization method. The Haldane's pseudopotentials for the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fawei Zheng , Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang

When phonons couple to fermions in 2D semimetals, the interaction may turn the system into an insulator. There are several insulating phases in which the time reversal and the sublattice symmetries are spontaneously broken. Examples are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

Edge states in the integral quantum Hall effect on a lattice are reviewed from a topological point of view. For a system with edges which is realized inevitably in an experimental situation, the Hall conductance $\sigma_{xy}$ is given by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) realizes dissipationless longitudinal resistivity and quantized Hall resistance without the need of an external magnetic field. However, when reducing the device dimensions or increasing the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Gertjan Lippertz , Andrea Bliesener , Anjana Uday , Lino M. C. Pereira , A. A. Taskin , Yoichi Ando

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is reported in a high mobility CdTe quantum well at mK temperatures. Fully-developed FQH states are observed at filling factor 4/3 and 5/3 and are found to be both spin-polarized ground state for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-16 B. A. Piot , J. Kunc , M. Potemski , D. K. Maude , C. Betthausen , A. Vogl , D. Weiss , G. Karczewski , T. Wojtowicz

The high-frequency conductivity of Si delta-doped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures is studied in the integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) regime, using acoustic methods. Both the real and the imaginary parts of the complex conductivity are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. L. Drichko , A. M. Diakonov , I. Yu. Smirnov , Y. M. Galperin , A. I. Toropov

The quantum Hall effect in three-dimensional Weyl semimetal (WSM) receives significant attention for the emergence of the Fermi loop where the underlying two-dimensional Hall conductivity, namely, sheet Hall conductivity, shows quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Feng Xiong , Carsten Honerkamp , Dante M. Kennes , Tanay Nag