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Following recent work of Halperin, Lee, and Read, and Kalmeyer and Zhang, a double-layer electron system with total Landau-level filling factor $\nu=1/2$ is mapped onto an equivalent system of fermions in zero average magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. E. Bonesteel

Two-component fractional quantum Hall (2C-FQH) states in electron bilayers have been known for decades, yet their experimental realization remained limited to low-order fractions. Here we report on several families of high-order 2C-FQH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 E. Bell , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , M. A. Zudov

Bilayer quantum Hall systems can form collective states in which electrons exhibit spontaneous interlayer phase coherence. We discuss the possibility of using bilayer quantum dot many-electron states with this property to create two-level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. -R. Eric Yang , John Schliemann , A. H. MacDonald

We address the question of whether fractionally filled bands with a nontrivial Chern index in zero external field could also exhibit a Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). Numerical works suggest this is possible. Analytic treatments are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-13 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect arises from strong electron correlations in a quantising magnetic field, and features exotic emergent phenomena such as electron fractionalisation. Using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Ben Currie , Evgeny Kozik

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is theoretically investigated, with numerical and algebraic approaches, in assemblies of a few spinful ultracold neutral fermionic atoms, interacting via repulsive contact potentials and confined in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-20 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

A novel model of complex quantum harmonic oscillator is found to account for the observed Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE). The sequences of the observed FQHE conductivity and charge are explained. The two sequences are found to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 A. I. Arbab

A recently developed model of interacting composite fermions, is used to investigate different composite-fermion phases. Their interaction potential allows for the formation of both solid and new quantum-liquid phases, which are interpreted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Goerbig , P. Lederer , C. Morais Smith

Composite fermions (CFs) of the fractional quantum Hall effect are described as spherical products of electron and vortex spinors, built from underlying L=1/2 ladder operators aligned so that the spinor angular momenta Le and Lv are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-26 W. C. Haxton , Daniel J. Haxton , Byungmin Kang

The state with a spontaneous interlayer phase coherence in a graphene based bilayer quantum Hall system is studied. This state can be considered as a gas of superfluid electron-hole pairs with the components of the pair belonging to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-12-23 D. V. Fil , L. Yu. Kravchenko

The particle-hole (PH) symmetry of {\em electrons} is an exact symmetry of the electronic Hamiltonian confined to a specific Landau level, and its interplay with the formation of composite fermions has attracted much attention of late. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-04 Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain

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

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is extensively studied, but the explanation for Hall plateau widths and excitation energy gaps remains elusive. We study the effective theory of FQHE built upon experimental inputs of Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Jongbae Hong , Soo-Jong Rey

Numerical studies by W\'ojs, Yi and Quinn have suggested that an unconventional fractional quantum Hall effect is plausible at filling factors $\nu=$ 1/3 and 1/5, provided the interparticle interaction has an unusual form for which the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-14 Ajit C. Balram

We study coherence and entanglement properties of the state space of a composite bi-fermion (two electrons pierced by $\lambda$ magnetic flux lines) at one Landau site of a bilayer quantum Hall system. In particular, interlayer imbalance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 M. Calixto , E. Pérez-Romero

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

When confined to two dimensions and exposed to a strong magnetic field, electrons screen the Coulomb interaction in a topological fashion; they capture and even number of quantum vortices and transform into particl es called `composite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vito W. Scarola , Kwon Park , J. K. Jain

We investigate spontaneous interlayer phase coherence and the occurrence of the quantum Hall effect in triple-layer electron systems. Our work is based on a simple tight-binding model that greatly facilitates calculations and whose accuracy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. B. Hanna , A. H. MacDonald

We generalize the fermion Chern-Simons theory for the Fractional Hall Effect (FQHE) which we developed before, to the case of bilayer systems. We study the complete dynamic response of these systems and predict the experimentally accessible…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ana Lopez , Eduardo Fradkin

At low Landau level filling of a two-dimensional electron system, typically associated with the formation of an electron crystal, we observe local minima in Rxx at filling factors nu=2/11, 3/17, 3/19, 2/13, 1/7, 2/15, 2/17, and 1/9. Each of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Pan , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West