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We study the plateaux of the integer quantum Hall resistance in a bilayer electron system in tilted magnetic fields. In a narrow range of tilt angles and at certain magnetic fields, the plateau level deviates appreciably from the quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. V. Deviatov , A. A. Shashkin , V. T. Dolgopolov , H. -J. Kutschera , A. Wixforth , K. L. Campman , A. C. Gossard

The quantum Hall liquid is a novel state of matter with profound emergent properties such as fractional charge and statistics. Existence of the quantum Hall effect requires breaking of the time reversal symmetry caused by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We discuss the behaviour of a quantum Hall system when two Landau levels with opposite spin and combined filling factor near unity are brought into energetic coincidence using an in-plane component of magnetic field. We focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 J. T. Chalker , D. G. Polyakov , F. Evers , A. D. Mirlin , P. Woelfle

The intriguing re-entrant integer quantized Hall states recently discovered in high Landau levels of high-mobility 2D electron systems are found to exhibit extremely non-linear transport. At small currents these states reflect insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. B. Cooper , M. P. Lilly , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We consider spin-polarized electrons in a single Landau level on a cylinder as the circumference of the cylinder goes to infinity. This gives a model of interacting electrons on a circle where the momenta of the particles are restricted and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-21 E. J. Bergholtz , A. Karlhede

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

Eigenstates of the planar magnetic Laplacian with homogeneous magnetic field form degenerate energy bands, the Landau levels. We discuss the unitary correspondence between states in higher Landau levels and those in the lowest Landau level,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Nicolas Rougerie , Jakob Yngvason

We have pointed out the possibility of quantum Hall effect or quantum patterns of transportation in a degenerate strongly magnetized quark matter, which might be expected inside a highly dense compact star. An anisotropic pattern of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-30 Jayanta Dey , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Akash Gupta , Naman Pujari , Sabyasachi Ghosh

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 study a paired state at the half-filled Landau level using a mean field theory on the von Neumann lattice. We obtain a microscopic model which shows a continuous transition from the compressible stripe state to the paired state. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nobuki Maeda

Quantum Hall states at filling fraction $\nu$=5/2 are examined by numerical diagonalization. Spin-polarized and -unpolarized states of systems with $N\le 18$ electrons are studied, neglecting effects of Landau level mixing. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rudolf H. Morf

Electron-electron interactions in half-filled high Landau levels in two-dimensional electron gases in a strong perpendicular magnetic field can lead to states with anisotropic longitudinal resistance. This longitudinal resitance is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-17 Peter M. Smith , Malcolm P. Kennett

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 single-particle energy spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field consists of equally-spaced spin-split Landau levels, whose degeneracy is proportional to the magnetic field strength. At integer and…

We present a simple classification of the different liquid and solid phases of quantum Hall systems in the limit where the Coulomb interaction between the electrons is significant, i.e. away from integral filling factors. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Goerbig , C. Morais Smith

Nematic quantum fluids with wavefunctions that break the underlying crystalline symmetry can form in interacting electronic systems. We examine the quantum Hall states that arise in high magnetic fields from anisotropic hole pockets on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Benjamin E. Feldman , Mallika T. Randeria , András Gyenis , Fengcheng Wu , Huiwen Ji , R. J. Cava , Allan H. MacDonald , Ali Yazdani

We present a Landau-Ginzburg theory for a fractional quantized Hall nematic state and the transition to it from an isotropic fractional quantum Hall state. This justifies Lifshitz-Chern-Simons theory -- which is shown to be its dual -- on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael Mulligan , Chetan Nayak , Shamit Kachru

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

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

Possible phase transitions between incompressible quantum Hall states and compressible three-dimensional states are discussed for infinite-layer electron systems in strong magnetic field. By variational Monte Carlo calculation, relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sei Suzuki , Yoshio Kuramoto