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The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), observed in two-dimensional (2D) charged particles at high magnetic fields, is one of the most fascinating, macroscopic manifestations of a many-body state stabilized by the strong Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , D. Kamburov , A. L. Graninger , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler

We show that a modified version of Son's Dirac composite fermion theory proposed by Seiberg et al gives a candidate unified description of the gapped and gapless fractional quantum Hall states within a single Landau level. Our main tool is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Kristan Jensen , Amir Raz

The quantum Hall effect was originally observed in a two-dimensional electron gas forming Landau levels when exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field and was later generalized to Chern insulators without net magnetization. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Benjamin Michen , Jan Carl Budich

We study quantum Hall ferromagnets in the presence of a random electrostatic impurity potential. Describing these systems with a classical non-linear sigma model and using analytical estimates supported by results from numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 S. Rapsch , J. T. Chalker , D. K. K. Lee

It is widely believed that integer quantum Hall systems do not have fractional excitations. Here we show the converse to be true for a class of systems where integer quantum Hall effect emerges spontaneously due to the interplay of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-03 Rodrigo A. Muniz , Armin Rahmani , Ivar Martin

Two-component fractional quantum Hall systems are providing a major motivation for a large section of the physics community. Here we study two-component fractional quantum Hall systems in the spin-polarized half-filled lowest Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Michael R. Peterson , Z. Papic , S. Das Sarma

We introduce a quench of the geometry of Landau level orbitals as a probe of nonequilibrium dynamics of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. We show that such geometric quenches induce coherent many-body dynamics of neutral degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-29 Zhao Liu , Andrey Gromov , Zlatko Papić

A set of recent results indicates that fractionally filled bands of Chern insulators in two dimensions support fractional quantum Hall states analogous to those found in fractionally filled Landau levels. We provide an understanding of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-26 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

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

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

Two dimensional electron systems exhibiting the fractional quantum Hall effects are characterized by a quantized Hall conductance and a dissipationless bulk. The transport in these systems occurs only at the edges where gapless excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Hoang K. Nguyen , Ganpathy Murthy

The effects of randomness are investigated in the fractional quantum Hall systems. Based on the Chern-Simons Ginzburg-Landou theory and considering relevant quasi-particle tunneling, the edge state network model for the hierarchical state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kentaro Nomura , Daijiro Yoshioka

Many robust physical phenomena in quantum physics are based on topological invariants arising due to intriguing geometrical properties of quantum states. Prime examples are the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects that demonstrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-18 Hannes Weisbrich , Raffael L. Klees , Oded Zilberberg , Wolfgang Belzig

Half-filled Landau levels host an emergent Fermi-liquid which displays an instability towards pairing, culminating in a gapped even-denominator fractional quantum Hall ground state. While this pairing may be probed by tuning the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 J. Falson , D. Tabrea , D. Zhang , I. Sodemann , Y. Kozuka , A. Tsukazaki , M. Kawasaki , K. von Klitzing , J. H. Smet

The fractional quantum Hall effect is a very particular manifestation of electronic correlations in two-dimensional systems in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. It arises as a consequence of a strong Coulomb repulsion between electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Mark O. Goerbig

We consider the lowest Landau level on a torus as a function of its circumference $L_1$. When $L_1\to 0$, the ground state at general rational filling fraction is a crystal with a gap--a Tao-Thouless state. For filling fractions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emil J. Bergholtz , Anders Karlhede

A two-layer system coupled via tunneling and with different carrier masses in each layer is investigated in the integer quantum Hall regime. Striking deviations of the one-layer Hall conductivity from the usual quantization are found, if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. L. Chudnovskiy , S. E. Ulloa

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

Strongly correlated fractional quantum Hall liquids support fractional excitations, which can be understood in terms of adiabatic flux insertion arguments. A second route to fractionalization is through the coupling of weakly interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-04 Armin Rahmani , Rodrigo A. Muniz , Ivar Martin

We study the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling fractions 7/3 and 5/2 in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction, using the exact diagonalization method and the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method in a spherical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-28 T. Ito , K. Nomura , N. Shibata