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Low-energy transport measurements in Quantum Hall systems have been argued to be governed by emergent modular symmetries whose predictions are robust against many of the detailed microscopic dynamics. We propose the recently-observed…

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There are compelling reasons to seek a new coherent description of the Quantum Hall Effects (QHE). The theories of the `Integer' (IQHE) and the `Fractional' (FQHE) quantum Hall effects are very different at present, despite their remarkable…

General Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 C. S. Unnikrishnan

We study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in the three-dimensional topological insulator HgTe, which features topological Dirac-type surface states in a bulk gap opened by strain. Despite the co-existence of multiple carrier subsystems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 S. Hartl , L. Freund , M. Kühn , J. Ziegler , E. Richter , W. Himmler , J. Bärenfänger , D. A. Kozlov , N. N. Mikhailov , J. Weis , D. Weiss

We present a different approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), focusing it as a consequence of the change in the symmetry of the Hamiltonian of every electron in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under the application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 M. A. Hidalgo

These lecture notes yield an introduction to quantum Hall effects both for non-relativistic electrons in conventional 2D electron gases (such as in semiconductor heterostructures) and relativistic electrons in graphene. After a brief…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-21 M. O. Goerbig

In graphene, which is an atomic layer of crystalline carbon, two of the distinguishing properties of the material are the charge carriers two-dimensional and relativistic character. The first experimental evidence of the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Fabian Duerr , Adina Luican , Eva Y. Andrei

We have observed the well-kown quantum Hall effect (QHE) in epitaxial graphene grown on silicon carbide (SiC) by using, for the first time, only commercial NdFeB permanent magnets at low temperature. The relatively large and homogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 F. D. Parmentier , T. Cazimajou , Y. Sekine , H. Hibino , H. Irie , D. C. Glattli , N. Kumada , P. Roulleau

A theory of integer quantum Hall effect(QHE) in realistic systems based on von Neumann lattice is presented. We show that the momentum representation is quite useful and that the quantum Hall regime(QHR), which is defined by the propagator…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Ishikawa , N. Maeda , K. Tadaki

I give a brief review of higher dimensional quantum Hall effect (QHE) and how one can use a general framework to describe the lowest Landau level dynamics as a noncommutative field theory whose semiclassical limit leads to anomaly free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-12 Dimitra Karabali

Weyl semimetals are emerging to become a new class of quantum-material platform for various novel phenomena. Especially, the Weyl orbit made from surface Fermi arcs and bulk relativistic states is expected to play a key role in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

We observe fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the even-denominator Landau level filling factor $\nu=1/2$ in two-dimensional hole systems confined to GaAs quantum wells of width 30 to 50 nm and having bilayer-like charge distributions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Yang Liu , A. L. Graninger , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

Quantum Hall effect (QHE), the ground to construct modern conceptual electronic systems with emerging physics, is often much influenced by the interplay between the host two-dimensional electron gases and the substrate, sometimes predicted…

The quantum Hall effect is a remarkable manifestation of quantized transport in a two-dimensional electron gas. Given its technological relevance, it is important to understand its development in realistic nanoscale devices. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 I. J. Vera-Marun , P. J. Zomer , A. Veligura , M. H. D. Guimarães , L. Visser , N. Tombros , H. J. van Elferen , U. Zeitler , B. J. van Wees

We predict the existence of a three dimensional quantum Hall effect plateau in a graphite crystal subject to a magnetic field. The plateau has a Hall conductivity quantized at $\frac{4e^2}{\hbar} \frac{1}{c_0} $ with $c_0$ the c-axis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Srinivas Raghu , Daniel P. Arovas

Starting from the photon self-energy tensor in a magnetized medium, the 3D complete antisymmetric form of the conductivity tensor is found in the static limit of a fermion system $C$ non-invariant under fermion-antifermion exchange. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 A. Pérez Martínez , E. Rodriguez Querts , H. Pérez Rojas , R. Gaitan , S. Rodriguez Romo

Since its discovery, graphene has been one of the most prominent 2D materials due to its unique properties and broad range of possible applications. In particular, the half-integer Quantum Hall Effect (HI-QHE) characterized by the…

A three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is a quantum state of matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet a conducting surface hosting topologically-protected gapless surface states. One of the most distinct electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Chang Liu , Jifa Tian , Hyoungdo Nam , Nasser Alidoust , Jiuning Hu , Chih-Kang Shih , M. Zahid Hasan , Yong P. Chen

The braid group dynamics captures the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) as a manifestation of puncture phase. When the dynamics is generalized for particles on a multi-sheeted surface, we obtain new tools which determine the fractional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Ting

The fate of integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) at weak magnetic field is studied numerically in the presence of {\it correlated} disorders. We find a systematic {\it float-up} and {\it merging} picture for extended levels on the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. N. Sheng , Z. Y. Weng , X. G. Wen