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The activation gap Delta of the fractional quantum Hall state at constant filling n =1/3 is measured in wide range of perpendicular magnetic field B. Despite the full spin polarization of the incompressible ground state, we observe a sharp…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. F. Dethlefsen , E. Mariani , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , R. J. Haug

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

Multicomponent quantum Hall effect, under the interplay between intercomponent and intracomponent correlations, leads us to new emergent topological orders. Here, we report the theoretical discovery of fractional quantum hall effect of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-01 Tian-Sheng Zeng

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase is a two-dimensional bulk ferromagnetic insulator with a nonzero Chern number in presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) but absence of applied magnetic fields. Associated metallic chiral edge states host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-28 Jian Zhou , Qi-Feng Liang , Hongming Weng , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Yan-Feng Chen , Jinming Dong , Guang-Yu Guo

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect holds fundamental importance in topological physics and technological promise for electronics. It is generally believed that the QAH effect can only be realized in insulators. In this Letter, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

Here we report from our theoretical studies that in biased bilayer graphene, one can induce phase transitions from an incompressible fractional quantum Hall state to a compressible state by tuning the bandgap at a given electron density.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-26 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

In the quantum anomalous Hall effect, quantized Hall resistance and vanishing longitudinal resistivity are predicted to result from the presence of dissipationless, chiral edge states and an insulating 2D bulk, without requiring an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 E. J. Fox , I. T. Rosen , Yanfei Yang , George R. Jones , Randolph E. Elmquist , Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Kang L. Wang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The recent prediction, and subsequent discovery, of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in thin films of the three-dimensional ferromagnetic topological insulator (MTI) (Cr$_y$Bi$_x$Sb$_{1-x-y}$)$_2$Te$_3$ has opened new possibilities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 I. T. Rosen , E. J. Fox , Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Kang L. Wang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Negative longitudinal magnetoresistance, in the presence of an external magnetic field parallel to the direction of an applied current, has recently been experimentally verified in Weyl semimetals and topological insulators in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 S. Nandy , A. Taraphder , Sumanta Tewari

When the quantum Hall effect occurs in a two-dimensional electron gas, all low-energy elementary excitations are localized near the system edge. The edge acts in many ways like a one-dimensional ring of electrons, except that a finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. H. MacDonald

We study edge dynamics in the presence of interlayer tunneling, parallel magnetic field, and various types of disorder for two infinite sequences of quantum Hall states in symmetric bilayers. These sequences begin with the 110 and 331…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. D. Naud , Leonid P. Pryadko , S. L. Sondhi

In the strong magnetic field fractional quantum Hall regime, electrons in a two-dimensional electron system are confined to their lowest Landau level. Because of the macroscopic Landau level degeneracy nearly all physical properties at low…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. H. MacDonald

The physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect is the physics of interacting electrons confined to a macroscopically degenerate Landau level. In this Chapter we discuss the theory of the quantum Hall effect in systems where the electrons…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Girvin , A. H. MacDonald

We provide a characterization of tunneling between coupled topological insulators in 2D and 3D under the influence of a ferromagnetic layer. We explore conditions for such systems to exhibit integer quantum Hall physics and localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Smitha Vishveshwara , Taylor L. Hughes

Recent experiments on the twisted semiconductor bilayer system $t$MoTe$_2$ have observed integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects, which occur in topological moir\'e bands at zero magnetic field. Here, we present a global phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu

There are known two distinct types of the integer quantum Hall effect. One is the conventional quantum Hall effect, characteristic of two-dimensional semiconductor systems, and the other is its relativistic counterpart recently observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Novoselov , E. McCann , S. V. Morozov , V. I. Falko , M. I. Katsnelson , U. Zeitler , D. Jiang , F. Schedin , A. K. Geim

Magneto-transport measurements in a clean two-dimensional electron system confined to a wide GaAs quantum well reveal that, when the electrons occupy two electric subbands, the sequences of fractional quantum Hall states observed at high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Shabani , Y. Liu , M. Shayegan

We argue that, at any filling factor, correlated quantum-Hall systems possess a set of chiral boson excitations which are generated by electronically rigid deformations of the system's periphery. We submit that tunneling electrons can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Zuelicke , A. H. MacDonald

The search for topologically non-trivial states of matter has become an important goal for condensed matter physics. Here, we give a theoretical introduction to the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect based on magnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The quantum Hall effect emerges when two-dimensional samples are subjected to strong magnetic fields at low temperatures: Topologically protected edge states cause a quantized Hall conductivity in multiples of $e^2/h$. Here we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-11 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig