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Motivated by recent experimental advancements in scanning optical stroboscopic confocal microscopy and spectroscopy measurements, which have facilitated exceptional energy-space-time resolution for investigating edge and bulk dynamics in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Jie Li , Chen-Xin Jiang , Zi-Xiang Hu

We present scanning optical stroboscopic confocal microscopy and spectroscopy measurements wherein three degrees of freedom, namely energy, real-space, and real-time, are resolvable. The edge-state propagation is detected as a temporal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Akinori Kamiyama , Masahiro Matsuura , John N. Moore , Takaaki Mano , Naokazu Shibata , Go Yusa

We experimentally study equilibration across the sample edge at high fractional filling factors 4/3, 5/3 under experimental conditions, which allow us to obtain high imbalance conditions. We find a lack of the full equilibration across the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-09 E. V. Deviatov , A. Lorke , W. Wegscheider

We study the interplay between two nontrivial boundary effects: (1) the two dimensional ($2d$) edge states of three dimensional ($3d$) strongly interacting bosonic symmetry protected topological states, and (2) the boundary fluctuations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Yichen Xu , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

A driven quantum system has been recently studied in the context of nonequilibrium phase transitions and their responses. In particular, for a periodically driven system, its dynamics are described in terms of the multi-dimensional Floquet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-08 HaRu K. Park , Junmo Jeon , Gil Young Cho , SungBin Lee

The structure of edge modes at the boundary of quantum Hall (QH) phases forms the basis for understanding low energy transport properties. In particular, the presence of ``upstream'' modes, moving against the direction of charge current…

We consider the excitation of single-electron wave packets by means of a time dependent voltage applied to the ballistic edge channels of the integer quantum Hall effect at filling factor $\nu=2$. Due to electron-electron interactions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Matteo Acciai , Matteo Carrega , Jérôme Rech , Thibaut Jonckheere , Thierry Martin , Maura Sassetti

A general theory of edge spin wave excitations in semi-infinite and finite periodic arrays of magnetic nanodots existing in a spatially uniform magnetization ground state is developed. The theory is formulated using a formalism of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Ivan Lisenkov , Vasyl Tyberkevych , Sergey Nikitov , Andrei Slavin

We study the edge physics of gapped quantum systems in the framework of Projected Entangled Pair State (PEPS) models. We show that the effective low-energy model for any region acts on the entanglement degrees of freedom at the boundary,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-28 S. Yang , L. Lehman , D. Poilblanc , K. Van Acoleyen , F. Verstraete , J. I. Cirac , N. Schuch

Spurred by recent development of fracton topological phases, unusual topological phases possessing fractionalized quasi-particles with mobility constraints, the concept of symmetries has been renewed. In particular, in accordance with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-24 Hiromi Ebisu , Masazumi Honda , Taiichi Nakanishi

Understanding topological phases of matter is essential for advancing both the fundamental theory and practical applications of condensed matter physics. Recently, a theoretical framework for a quantum Hall system with an expanding edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Yuuki Sugiyama , Tokiro Numasawa

Stacked two dimensional electron systems in transverse magnetic fields exhibit three dimensional fractional quantum Hall phases. We analyze the simplest such phases and find novel bulk properties, e.g., irrational braiding. These phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. D. Naud , Leonid P. Pryadko , S. L. Sondhi

We theoretically investigate the flow of the atomic excitations in a driven chiral-coupled atomic chain with nonreciprocal decay channels. This one-dimensional system allows infinite-range dipole-dipole interaction, and enables directional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 H. H. Jen

We show that Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices with broken time-reversal symmetry can support chiral edge modes originating from nontrivial bulk excitation band topology. To be specific, we analyze a Bose-Hubbard extension of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-01 Shunsuke Furukawa , Masahito Ueda

Edge states are time-harmonic solutions of conservative wave systems which are plane wave-like parallel to and localized transverse to an interface between two bulk media. We study a class of 2D edge Hamiltonians modeling a medium which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Jonah Chaban , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Michael I. Weinstein

Motivated by surprises in recent experimental findings, we study transport in a model of a quantum Hall edge system with a gate-voltage controlled constriction. A finite backscattered current at finite edge-bias is explained from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-04 Siddhartha Lal

Starting from the tight-binding dielectric matrix in the random phase approximation we examine the collective modes and electron-hole excitations in a two-band electronic system. For long wavelengths (${\bf q}\rightarrow0$), for which most…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Zupanovic , A. Bjelis , S. Barisic

This paper attempts to establish the connection among classifications of gapped boundaries in topological phases of matter, bosonic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases and fault-tolerantly implementable logical gates in quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-25 Beni Yoshida

We investigate the structure of gapless edge modes propagating at the boundary of some fractional quantum Hall states. We show how to deduce explicit trial wavefunctions from the knowledge of the effective theory governing the edge modes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 M. V. Milovanović , Th. Jolicœur

We investigate electronic transport in gapped bilayer graphene (gBLG) devices. For certain edge terminations -typically a combination of zigzag, armchair, and bearded types - we observe edge state conduction within the band gap, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jesús Arturo Sánchez-Sánchez , Thomas Stegmann