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We analyze a quantum walk on a bipartite one-dimensional lattice, in which the particle can decay whenever it visits one of the two sublattices. The corresponding non-Hermitian tight-binding problem with a complex potential for the decaying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Rudner , L. S. Levitov

We study the anisotropic effect of the Coulomb interaction on a 1/3-filling fractional quantum Hall system by using an exact diagonalization method on small systems in torus geometry. For weak anisotropy the system remains to be an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-18 Hao Wang , Rajesh Narayanan , Xin Wan , Fuchun Zhang

It is demonstrated that all observed fractions at moderate Landau level fillings for the quantum Hall effect can be obtained without recourse to the phenomenological concept of composite fermions. The possibility to have the special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Iordanski

The adiabatic topological pumping is proposed by periodically modulating a semiconductor nanowire double-quantum-dot chain. We demonstrate that the quantized charge transport can be achieved by a nontrivial modulation of the quantum-dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. Xu

In this paper we give a survey of some models of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect based on noncommutative geometry. We begin by recalling some classical geometry of electrons in solids and the passage to noncommutative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matilde Marcolli , Varghese Mathai

Tunnelling measurements on fractional quantum Hall systems are continuing to increase in popularity since they provide a method to probe the non-Fermi liquid behaviour of fractionally charged excitations occupying the edge states of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-27 S. Huntington , V. Cheianov

We have numerically studied a non-adiabatic charge transport in the quantum Hall system pumped by a magnetic flux, as one of the simplest theoretical realizations of non-adiabatic Thouless pumping. In the adiabatic limit, a pumped charge is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Maruyama , Y. Hatsugai

A topological pump enables robust transport of quantized particles when the system parameters are varied in a cyclic process. In previous studies, topological pump was achieved inhomogeneous systems guaranteed by a topological invariant of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Bi-Ye Xie , Oubo You , Shuang Zhang

Here we report from our theoretical studies that in biased bilayer graphene, one can induce phase transitions from an incompressible fractional quantum Hall state to a compressible state by tuning the bandgap at a given electron density.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-26 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Fractional quantized response appears to be a distinctive characteristic in interacting topological systems. Here, we discover a novel phenomenon of tilt-induced fractional quantize drift in non-interacting system constructed by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-09 Bo Zhu , Zhi Tan , Huilin Gong , Honghua Zhong , Xin-You Lü , Xiaoguang Wang

I review why and how physical states with fractional quantum numbers can occur, emphasizing basic mechanisms in simple contexts. The general mechanism of charge fractionalization is the passage from states created by local action of fields…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Frank Wilczek

The interplay between strong correlations and topology can lead to the emergence of intriguing quantum states of matter. One well-known example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, where exotic electron fluids with fractionally charged…

We study Thouless pumps, i.e., adiabatic topological transport, in an interacting spin chain described by the dimerized XXZ Hamiltonian. In the noninteracting case, quantized Thouless pumps can only occur when a topological singularity is…

It is demonstrated that all observed fractions at moderate Landau level fillings in the quantum Hall effect can be obtained without recourse to the phenomenological concept of composite fermions. The possibility to have the special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Iordanski

The co-presence of multiple Dirac bands in few-layer graphene leads to a rich phase diagram in the quantum Hall regime. Using transport measurements, we map the phase diagram of BN-encapsulated ABA-stacked trilayer graphene as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Petr Stepanov , Yafis Barlas , Tim Espiritu , Shi Che , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dmitry Smirnov , Chun Ning Lau

A fractional quantization in a two dimensional space is proposed. The angular momenta of the two dimensional electrons are quantized in fractional numbers by the boundary conditions on a multi-layered Riemann surface. Extended wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyeong Rag Lee

Recent studies indicated that helical organic molecules, such as DNA and $\alpha$-helical protein, can behave as Thouless quantum pumps when a rotating electric field is applied perpendicularly to their helical axes. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ai-Min Guo , Pei-Jia Hu , Xiao-Hui Gao , Tie-Feng Fang , Qing-Feng Sun

Topology is key in describing unconventional quantum phases of matter and devising robust quantum technology. Exactly how topology mixes with quantum mechanics remains largely unclear, as testified by the lack of a unifying microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Eugenio DelRe , Paolo Di Porto

Nonlinear Thouless pumps for bosons exhibit quantized pumping via soliton motion, despite the lack of a meaningful notion of filled bands. However, the theoretical underpinning of this quantization, as well as its relationship to the Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

In non-interacting systems, bands from non-trivial topology emerge strictly at half-filling and exhibit either the quantum anomalous Hall or spin Hall effects. Here we show using determinantal quantum Monte Carlo and an exactly solvable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Peizhi Mai , Jinchao Zhao , Benjamin E. Feldman , Philip W. Phillips