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Motivated by the quasiparticle wavefunction in the composite fermion (CF) theory for fractional quantum Hall filling factor $\nu = 1/m$, I consider a suitable quasiparticle operator in differential form, as a modified form of Laughlin's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Sudhansu S. Mandal

We study fractional quantum Hall states in the cylinder geometry with open boundaries. We focus on principal fermionic 1/3 and bosonic 1/2 fractions in the case of hard-core interactions. The gap behavior as a function of the cylinder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-08 Paul Soulé , Thierry Jolicoeur

It has long been puzzling that fractional quantum Hall states in the first excited Landau level (1LL) often differ significantly from their counterparts in the lowest Landau level. We show that the dispersion of composite fermions (CFs) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Hao Jin , Junren Shi

Li and Haldane conjectured and numerically substantiated that the entanglement spectrum of the reduced density matrix of ground-states of time-reversal breaking topological phases (fractional quantum Hall states) contains information about…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-05 A. Chandran , M. Hermanns , N. Regnault , B. A. Bernevig

Many fractional quantum Hall wave functions are known to be unique and highest-density zero modes of certain "pseudopotential" Hamiltonians. Examples include the Read-Rezayi series (in particular, the Laughlin, Moore-Read and Read-Rezayi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-29 Ching Hua Lee , Zlatko Papić , Ronny Thomale

We find a series of possible continuous quantum phase transitions between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at the same filling fraction in two-component quantum Hall systems. These can be driven by tuning the interlayer tunneling and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Gang Wen

The electronic properties of graphene are described by a Dirac Hamiltonian with a fourfold symmetry of spin and valley. This symmetry may yield novel fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at high magnetic field depending on the relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-12 F. Amet , A. J. Bestwick , J. R. Williams , L. Balicas , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Evidence for developing fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at filling fraction $\nu{=}1/6$ and $1/8$ has recently been reported in wide GaAs quantum wells [Wang \emph{et al.}, PRL {\bf 134}, 046502 (2025)]. In this article, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ajit C. Balram , Anirban Sharma , J. K. Jain

We study lattice wave functions obtained from the SU(2)$_1$ Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theory. Following Moore and Read's construction, the Kalmeyer-Laughlin fractional quantum Hall state is defined as a correlation function of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-28 Benedikt Herwerth , Germán Sierra , Hong-Hao Tu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Anne E. B. Nielsen

We propose a geometric description of all gapped excitations in fractional quantum Hall phases that reveals several fundamental understandings with experimental consequences. These include a duality between the Hilbert space of multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Yuzhu Wang , Bo Yang

We employ the exact diagonalization method to analyze the possibility of generating strongly correlated states in two-dimensional clouds of ultracold bosonic atoms which are subjected to a geometric gauge field created by coupling two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-04 B. Juliá-Díaz , T. Graß , N. Barberán , M. Lewenstein

Gapless topological boundary states characterize nontrivial topological phases arising from the bulk-boundary correspondence in symmetry-protected topological materials, such as the emergence of helical edge states in a two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-19 Yueh-Ting Yao , Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Hsin Lin , Arun Bansil , Tay-Rong Chang

We conjecture that the counting of the levels in the orbital entanglement spectra (OES) of finite-sized Laughlin Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) droplets at filling $\nu=1/m$ is described by the Haldane statistics of particles in a box of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-05 M. Hermanns , A. Chandran , N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Topological band theory has been studied for free fermions for decades, and one of the most profound physical results is the bulk-boundary correspondence. Recently a focus in topological physics is extending topological classification to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Liang Mao , Hui Zhai , Fan Yang

We study the edge transport properties of paired fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states--- the Haldane-Rezayi (HR), Moore-Read (Pfaffian) and Halperin (331) states. A table of exponents is given for the tunneling between the edges of paired…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken-ichiro Imura , Kazusumi Ino

The observed fractional quantum Hall (FQH) plateaus follow a recurring hierarchical structure that allows an understanding of complex states based on simpler ones. Condensing the elementary quasiparticles of an Abelian FQH state results in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Misha Yutushui , Maria Hermanns , David F. Mross

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is a canonical example of electron-electron interactions producing new ground states in many-body systems. Most FQH studies have focused on the lowest Landau level (LL), whose fractional states are…

In this paper we study the conditions under which an N-electron wave function for a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state can be viewed as N-point correlation function in a conformal field theory (CFT). Several concrete examples are presented…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Xiao-Gang Wen , Yong-Shi Wu

We propose a systematical approach to construct generic fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states, which are generalizations of the fractional quantum Hall states to lattice models with zero net magnetic field and full lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Xiao-Liang Qi

We consider the general abelian background configurations for the Haldane-Rezayi quantum Hall state. We determine the stable configurations to be the ones with the spontaneous flux of $(\Z+1/2) \phi_0$ with $\phi_0 = hc/e$. This gives the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kazusumi Ino