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We give a simple macroscopic phase-space explanation of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), in a fashion reminiscent of the Landau-Ginsburg macroscopic symmetry breaking analyses. This is in contrast to the more complicated microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 F. A Buot , G. Maglasang , A. R. F. Elnar , C. M. Galon

In the search of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, the conventional wisdom is to start from a flat Chern band isolated from the rest of the Hilbert space by band gaps, so that many-body interaction can be projected to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Tixuan Tan , Feng-Ren Fan , Zuzhang Lin , Wang Yao

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states have recently been observed at unexpected values of the filling factor nu. Here we interpret these states as a novel family of FQH states involving pairing correlations rather than Laughlin correlations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 John J. Quinn , Arkadiusz Wojs , Kyung-Soo Yi

We report observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in high mobility multi-terminal graphene devices, fabricated on a single crystal boron nitride substrate. We observe an unexpected hierarchy in the emergent FQHE states that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 C. R. Dean , A. F. Young , P. Cadden-Zimansky , L. Wang , H. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Kim , J. Hone , K. L. Shepard

The fractionally charged quasiparticles appearing in the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall plateau are predicted to have an extra non-local degree of freedom, known as topological charge. We show how this topological charge can block the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 B. van Heck , M. Burrello , A. Yacoby , A. R. Akhmerov

We study various geometrical aspects of the propagation of particles obeying fractional statistics in the physical setting of the quantum Hall system. We find a discrete set of zeros for the two-particle kernel in the lowest Landau level;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diptiman Sen , Michael Stone , Smitha Vishveshwara

The search for anyons, quasiparticles with fractional charge and exotic exchange statistics, has inspired decades of condensed matter research. Quantum Hall interferometers enable direct observation of the anyon braiding phase via discrete…

Over a long period of exploration, the successful observation of quantized version of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in thin film of magnetically-doped topological insulator completed a quantum Hall trio---quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Hongming Weng , Rui Yu , Xiao Hu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We discuss a quasi-particle formulation of effective edge theories for the fractional quantum Hall effect. Fundamental quasi-particles for the Laughlin state with filling fraction \nu =1/3 are edge electrons of charge -e and edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Schoutens , R. A. J. van Elburg

Disorder and electron-electron interaction play essential roles in the physics of electron systems in condensed matter. In two-dimensional, quantum Hall systems, extensive studies of disorder-induced localization have led to the emergence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 P. T. Madathil , K. A. Villegas Rosales , C. T. Tai , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

We report experimental realization of a quasiparticle interferometer where the entire system is in 1/3 primary fractional quantum Hall state. The interferometer consists of chiral edge channels coupled by quantum-coherent tunneling in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. E. Camino , Wei Zhou , V. J. Goldman

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect refers to the strongly-correlated phenomena and the associated quantum phases of matter realized in a two-dimensional gas of electrons placed in a large perpendicular magnetic field. In such systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Zlatko Papić , Ajit C. Balram

Even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states can be viewed as topological superconductors of composite fermions, supporting a charged chiral mode and $|\mathcal{C}_{cf}|$ neutral Majorana modes set by the Chern number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Eslam Ahmed , Ryoi Ohashi , Hiroki Isobe , Kentaro Nomura , Yukio Tanaka

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

Since the ground-breaking discovery of the quantum Hall effect, half-quantized quantum Hall plateaus have been some of the most studied and sought-after states. Their importance stems not only from the fact that they transcend the composite…

It was recently discovered that fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states can be classified by the way ground state wave functions go to zero when electrons are brought close together. Quasiparticles in the FQH states can be classified in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Gang Wen

A theory of transport through semiconductor nanostructures in the fractional quantum Hall regime is proposed, based on a model of composite fermion edge states. Adiabatic and non-adiabatic constrictions and constrictions containing…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 George Kirczenow

A composite fermion edge state theory of current fluctuations, fractional quasiparticle charge and Johnson-Nyquist noise in the fractional quantum Hall regime is presented. It is shown that composite fermion current fluctuations and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 George Kirczenow

We in this Letter derive analytic formulas of Bell correlations in terms of quantum probability statistics under the assumption of measuring outcome-independence. For a spin-1/2 singlet state we find analytically that the violations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-09 Zhigang Song , J. -Q. Liang , L. -F. Wei

We use a Mach-Zehnder quantum Hall interferometer of a novel design to investigate the interference effects at fractional filling factors. Our device brings together the advantages of usual Mach-Zehnder and Fabry-Perot quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 E. V. Deviatov , S. V. Egorov , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba