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We propose a new way for describing the transition between two quantum Hall effect states with different filling factors within the framework of rational conformal field theory. Using a particular class of non-unitary theories, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael Flohr

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

One of the most successful theories of a non-Fermi liquid metallic state is the composite Fermi liquid (CFL) theory of the half-filled Landau level. In this paper, we study continuous quantum phase transitions out of the CFL state and into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-22 Maissam Barkeshli , John McGreevy

The occurrence of incompressible quantum fluid states of a two dimensional system is a result of electron--electron interactions in a highly degenerate fractionally filled Landau level. Novel quasiparticles (QP's) called composite Fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John J. Quinn , Arkadiusz Wojs , Kyung-Soo Yi , Jennifer J. Quinn

There is convincing numerical evidence that fractional quantum Hall (FQH)-like ground states arise in fractionally filled Chern bands (FCB). Here we show that the Hamiltonian theory of Composite Fermions (CF) can be as useful in describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

Motivated by recent experiments that reveal expansive fractional quantum Hall states in the $n=1$ graphene Landau level and suggest a nontrivial role of the spin degree of freedom [Amet {\em et al.}, Nat. Common. {\bf 6}, 5838 (2014)], we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-20 Ajit C. Balram , Csaba Tőke , A. Wójs , 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

We show here that an extension of the Hamiltonian theory developed by us over the years furnishes a composite fermion (CF) description of the $\nu =\frac{1}{2}$ state that is particle-hole (PH) symmetric, has a charge density that obeys the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-10 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

It has been well-known that topological phenomena with fractional excitations, i.e., the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) \cite{Tsui1982} will emerge when electrons move in Landau levels. In this letter, we report the discovery of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-13 D. N. Sheng , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Kai Sun , L. Sheng

Collective modes of exotic quantum fluids reveal underlying physical mechanisms responsible for emergent complex quantum ground states. We observe unexpected new collective modes in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Lingjie Du , Ursula Wurstbauer , Ken W. West , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Saeed Fallahi , Geoff C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra , Aron Pinczuk

Motivated by the quasiparticle wavefunction in the composite fermion (CF) theory for fractional quantum Hall filling factor $\nu = 1/m$, I consider a suitable quasiparticle operator in differential form, as a modified form of Laughlin's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Sudhansu S. Mandal

Much of the present day qualitative phenomenology of the fractional quantum Hall effect can be understood by neglecting the interactions between composite fermions altogether. For example the fractional quantum Hall effect at $\nu=n/(2pn\pm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Seung-Yeop Lee , Vito W. Scarola , J. K. Jain

The mean field composite Fermion (CF) picture successfully predicts angular momenta of multiplets forming the lowest energy band in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems. This success cannot be attributed to a cancellation between Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

One of the most spectacular experimental findings in the fractional quantum Hall effect is evidence for an emergent Fermi surface when the electron density is nearly half the density of magnetic flux quanta ($\nu = 1/2$). The seminal work…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-14 Scott D. Geraedts , Michael P. Zaletel , Roger S. K. Mong , Max A. Metlitski , Ashvin Vishwanath , Olexei I. Motrunich

A set of scalar operators are employed to generate explicit representations of both hierarchy states (e.g., the series of fillings 1/3, 2/5, 3/7, ... ) and their conjugates (fillings 1, 2/3, 3/5, ...) as non-interacting quasi-electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-27 W. C. Haxton , Daniel J. Haxton

The even denominator fractional quantum Hall effect has been experimentally observed in graphene in the fourth Landau level ($n = 3$). This paper is motivated by recent studies regarding the possibility of pairing and the nature of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-14 Sonja Predin

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

It is known that a subset of fractional quantum Hall wave functions has been expressed as conformal field theory (CFT) correlators, notably the Laughlin wave function at filling factor $\nu=1/m$ ($m$ odd) and its quasiholes, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Hans Hansson , Chia-Chen Chang , Jainendra Jain , Susanne Viefers

In two-dimensional (2D) electron systems under strong magnetic fields, interactions can cause fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects. Bringing two 2D conductors to proximity, a new set of correlated states can emerge due to interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bertrand Halperin , Philip Kim

We present a theory of composite fermion edge states and their transport properties in the fractional and integer quantum Hall regimes. We show that the effective electro-chemical potentials of composite fermions at the edges of a Hall bar…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 George Kirczenow , Brad L. Johnson