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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

Despite the success of Landau-level theory and edge-state transport formalisms, a direct microscopic link between bulk quantization and the observed hierarchy of quantum Hall plateaus has not been established. In particular, no unified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Pedro Pereyra

Recent magnetotransport experiments on high mobility two-dimensional electron systems have revealed many-body electron states unique to high Landau levels. Among these are re-entrant integer quantum Hall states which undergo sharp…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. B. Cooper , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The integer quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a lattice analog of the quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field. This striking transport phenomenon occurs in electronic systems with topologically nontrivial bands and spontaneous…

When a three-dimensional (3D) ferromagnetic topological insulator thin film is magnetized out-of-plane, conduction ideally occurs through dissipationless, one-dimensional (1D) chiral states that are characterized by a quantized, zero-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 A. Kandala , A. Richardella , S. Kempinger , C-X. Liu , N. Samarth

With the recent observation of graphene-like Landau levels at the surface of topological insulators, the possibility of fractional quantum Hall effect, which is a fundamental signature of strong correlations, has become of interest. Some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Ashley M. DaSilva

The edge structure of the $\nu=2/3$ fractional quantum Hall state has been studied for several decades but recent experiments, exhibiting upstream neutral mode(s), a plateau at a Hall conductance of $\frac{1}{3}( e^2/h)$ through a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-24 Jianhui Wang , Yigal Meir , Yuval Gefen

We give an overview of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect. We propose a mathematical framework using Non-Commutative Geometry as defined by A. Connes. Within this framework, it is proved that the Hall conductivity is quantized and that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Bellissard , A. van Elst , H. Schulz-Baldes

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) hosts the dissipationless chiral edge states associated with the nonzero Chern number, providing potentially significant applications in future spintronics. The QAHE usually occurs in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Y. J. Jin , R. Wang , B. W. Xia , B. B. Zheng , H. Xu

We report a magnetotransport study of the termination of the spin-resolved integer quantum Hall effect by controlled disorder in a gated GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. We have found that, for a given N^{th} Landau level, the difference in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. W. Wong , H. W. Jiang , E. Palm , W. J. Schaff

At high magnetic fields, where the Fermi level lies in the N=0 lowest Landau level (LL), a clean two-dimensional electron system (2DES) exhibits numerous incompressible liquid phases which display the fractional quantized Hall effect (FQHE)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-14 Jing Xia , J. P. Eisenstein , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West

We demonstrate experimentally that the transitions between adjacent integer quantum Hall (QH) states are equivalent to a QH-to-insulator transition occurring in the top Landau level, in the presence of an inert background of the other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Shahar , D. C. Tsui , M. Shayegan , E. Shimshoni , S. L. Sondhi

Quantum Hall Dynamics is formulated on von Neumann lattice representation where electrons in Landau levels are defined on lattice sites and are treated systematically like lattice fermions. We give a proof of the integer Hall effect, namely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Ishikawa , N. Maeda , T. Ochiai , H. Suzuki

When Landau levels (LLs) become degenerate near the Fermi energy in the quantum Hall regime, interaction effects can drastically modify the electronic ground state. We study the quantum Hall ferromagnet formed in a two-dimensional hole gas…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 M. Lupatini , P. Knüppel , S. Faelt , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan , A. Imamoglu , W. Wegscheider

For a three-dimensional lattice in magnetic fields we have shown that the hopping along the third direction, which normally tends to smear out the Landau quantization gaps, can rather give rise to a fractal energy spectram akin to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Koshino , H. Aoki , K. Kuroki , S. Kagoshima , T. Osada

We investigate a gapped two-dimensional nodal-line semimetal subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. We identify an unusual pattern for Landau levels, where the energy of Landau levels first decreases and then starts increasing versus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Shahin Barati , Hamid Rahimpoor , Saeed H. Abedinpour

We study the influence of step defect on surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. By calculating the energy spectrum of the surface states, we find that Landau levels (LLs) can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Yan-Feng Zhou , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

We extensively study the localization and the quantum Hall effect in the Hofstadter butterfly, which emerges in a two-dimensional electron system with a weak two-dimensional periodic potential. We numerically calculate the Hall conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

We analyze the role of impurities in the fractional quantum Hall effect using a highly controllable system of ultracold atoms. We investigate the mechanism responsible for the formation of plateaux in the resistivity/conductivity as a…

The surface states of topological insulators, which behave as charged massless Dirac fermions, are studied in the presence of a quantizing uniform magnetic field. Using the method of D.H. Lee[1], analytical formula satisfied by the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Oskar Vafek