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The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the filling factor with an even denominator, 5/2, occurs despite the expectation, due to the electron statistics, that the denominator must be an odd number. It is believed that the Cooper…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-12 N. Nešković , I. Vasić , M. V. Milovanović

According to recent arguments by the author, the conformal field theory (CFT) describing the scaling limit of the integer quantum Hall plateau transition is a deformed level-4 Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model with Riemannian target space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Martin R. Zirnbauer

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, a lattice analogue of fractional quantum Hall effect, offers a unique pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum computation and deep insights into the interplay of topology and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

Two dimensional electron systems exhibiting the fractional quantum Hall effects are characterized by a quantized Hall conductance and a dissipationless bulk. The transport in these systems occurs only at the edges where gapless excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Hoang K. Nguyen , Ganpathy Murthy

We study the quantum Hall states that appear in the dilute limit of rotating ultracold fermionic gases when a single hyperfine species is present. We show that the p-wave scattering translates into a pure hard-core interaction in the lowest…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Thierry Jolicoeur , Nicolas Regnault

Weyl semimetal may be thought of as a gapless topological phase protected by the chiral anomaly, where the symmetries involved in the anomaly are the $U(1)$ charge conservation and the crystal translational symmetry. The absence of a band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-09 Chong Wang , L. Gioia , A. A. Burkov

Motivated by recent theoretical progress demonstrating the existence of non-Abelian parafermion zero modes in domain walls on interfaces between two dimensional Abelian topological phases of matter, we investigate the properties of gapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-04 Luiz H. Santos

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…

We identify the the ground-state of a truncated version of Haldane's pseudo-potential Hamiltonian in a thin cylinder geometry as being composed of exponentially many fragmented matrix product states. These states are constructed by lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-12 Bruno Nachtergaele , Simone Warzel , Amanda Young

A two-dimensional electron system exposed to a strong magnetic field produces a plethora of strongly interacting fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, the complex topological orders of which are revealed through exotic emergent particles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ke Huang , Ajit C. Balram , Hailong Fu , Chengqi Guo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jainendra K. Jain , Jun Zhu

We show that every even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state possesses at least two robust, topologically distinct gapless edge phases if charge conservation is broken at the boundary by coupling to a superconductor. The new edge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-24 Maissam Barkeshli , Chetan Nayak

We study fusion rings, or symmetry topological field theories (SymTFTs), which lie outside the non-negative integer matrix representation (NIM-rep), by combining knowledge from generalized symmetry and that from pseudo-Hermitian systems. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Yoshiki Fukusumi , Taishi Kawamoto

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, known for their robust topological order and the emergence of non-Abelian anyons, have captured significant interest due to the appealing applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing. Bottom-up…

We demonstrate via exact diagonalization that AA-stacked TMD homobilayers host fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states with fractionally quantized Hall conductance at fractional fillings $n=\frac{1}{3},\, \frac{2}{3}$ and zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Aidan P. Reddy , Faisal F. Alsallom , Yang Zhang , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

We theoretically investigate quantum transport properties of quantum anomalous Hall bilayers, with arbitrary ratio of lattice constants, i.e., with lattice mismatch. In the simplest case of ratio 1 (but with different model parameters in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Yan Yu , Yan-Yang Zhang , Si-Si Wang , Ji-Huan Guan , Xiaotian Yang , Yang Xia , Shu-Shen Li

Transitions from a paired quantum Hall state to another quantum Hall state in bilayer systems are discussed in the framework of the edge theory. Starting from the edge theory for the Haldane-Rezayi state, it is shown that the charging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kentaro Nomura , Daijiro Yoshioka

In this thesis, I will present studies on the collective modes of the fractional quantum Hall states, which are bulk neutral excitations reflecting the incompressibility that defines the topological nature of these states. It was first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-11 Bo Yang

The hallmark of two-dimensional chiral topological phases is the existence of anomalous gapless modes at the spatial boundary. Yet, the manifestation of this edge anomaly within the bulk ground-state wavefunction itself remains only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Yarden Sheffer , Ruihua Fan , Ady Stern , Erez Berg , Shinsei Ryu

We argue that a correlated fluid of electrons and holes can exhibit a fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field analogous to the Laughlin state at filling $1/m$. We introduce a variant of the Laughlin wavefunction for electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Yichen Hu , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , C. L. Kane

We present a comprehensive numerical study of a microscopic model of the fractional quantum Hall system at filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, based on the disc geometry. Our model includes Coulomb interaction and a semi-realistic confining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xin Wan , Zi-Xiang Hu , E. H. Rezayi , Kun Yang