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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

A quantum Hall system which is divided into two laterally coupled subsystems by means of a tunneling barrier exhibits a complex Landau level dispersion. Magnetotunneling spectroscopy is employed to investigate the small energy gaps which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Matthias Habl , Werner Wegscheider

The integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) is usually modeled using Galilean-invariant or rotationally-invariant Landau levels. However, these are not generic symmetries of electrons moving in a crystalline background, even in the low-density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 F. D. M. Haldane , Yu Shen

We report the first unambiguous observation of a fractional quantum Hall state in the Landau level of a two-dimensional hole sample at the filling factor $\nu=8/3$. We identified this state by a quantized Hall resistance and an activated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Kumar , N. Samkharadze , M. J. Manfra , G. A. Csathy , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The structure of fractional fillings of higher Landau levels including spin subbands is systematically derived for the first time. Using topology-type commensurability arguments for 2D charged system in the presence of strong quantizing…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-21 Janusz Jacak , Lucjan Jacak

The mixing of states with {\it opposite chirality} in quantum Hall system is shown to have delocalization effect. It is possible that extended states may form bands because of this mixing, as is shown through a numerical calculation on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gang Xiong , Shi-Dong Wang , Qian Niu , Yupeng Wang , X. C. Xie , De-Cheng Tian , X. R. Wang

We consider a class of interaction terms that describes correlated tunneling of composite fermions between effective Landau levels. Despite being generic and of similar strength to that of the usual density-density couplings, these terms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dror Orgad , Oded Agam

The observation of new insulating phases of two-dimensional electrons in the first excited Landau level is reported. These states, which are manifested as re-entrant integer quantized Hall effects, exist alongside well-developed…

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

We relate the collective dynamic internal geometric degrees of freedom to the gauge fluctuations in $\nu=1/m$(m odd) fractional quantum Hall effects. In this way, in the lowest Landau level, a highly nontrivial quantum geometry in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-15 Xi Luo , Yong-Shi Wu , Yue Yu

We investigated the behavior of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in a two-dimensional electron system with layer thickness and an in-plane magnetic field. Our comparisons across various filling factors within the first Landau level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-26 Dan Ye , Chen-Xin Jiang , Zi-Xiang Hu

Landau levels are the eigenstates of a charged particle in two dimensions under a magnetic field, and are at the heart of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects, which are two prototypical phenomena showing topological features.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Bruno Mera , Tomoki Ozawa

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

I review some aspects of an alternative model of the quantum Hall effect, which is not based on the presence of disorder potentials. Instead, a quantization of the electronic drift current in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias Kramer

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…

In this Letter, we study topological flat bands with distinct features that deviate from conventional Landau level behavior. We show that even in the ideal quantum geometry limit, moire flat band systems can exhibit physical phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Ang-Kun Wu , Shi-Zeng Lin , Kai Sun

We show that the Landau quantum systems (or integer quantum Hall effect systems) in a plane, sphere or a hyperboloid, can be explained in a complete meaningful way from group-theoretical considerations concerning the symmetry group of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Negro , M. A. del Olmo , A. Rodriguez-Marco

Fractional quantum Hall states at a half-filled Landau level are believed to carry an integer number $\mathcal{C}$ of chiral Majorana edge modes, reflected in their thermal Hall conductivity. We show that this number determines the primary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Ady Stern , Netanel H. Lindner

The spectrum of charged particles in translation-invariant systems in a magnetic field is characterized by the Landau levels, which play a fundamental role in the thermodynamic and transport properties of solids. The topological nature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Isac Sahlberg , Moein N. Ivaki , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

Two-dimensional systems in magnetic fields host rich physics, most notably the quantum Hall effect arising from Landau level quantization. In a broad class of two-dimensional models, flat bands with topologically nontrivial band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Soujanya Datta , Krishanu Roychowdhury

Quantum geometry is a fundamental concept to characterize the local properties of quantum states. It is recently demonstrated that saturating certain quantum geometric bounds allows a topological Chern band to share many essential features…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Zhao Liu , Bruno Mera , Manato Fujimoto , Tomoki Ozawa , Jie Wang