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The compressibility of a two-dimensional electron system with spin in a spatially correlated random potential and a quantizing magnetic field is investigated. Electron-electron interaction is treated with the Hartree-Fock method. Numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Struck , Bernhard Kramer

The von Neumann lattice representation is a convenient representation for studying several intriguing physics of quantum Hall systems. In this formalism, electrons are mapped to lattice fermions. A topological invariant expression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ishikawa , T. Aoyama , Y. Ishizuka , N. Maeda

Half-metallic ferromagnetism (HMFM) occurs rarely in materials and yet offers great potential for spintronic devices. Recent experiments suggest a class of compounds with the `ThCr$_{2}$Si$_{2}$' (122) structure -- isostructural and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-18 Sinead M. Griffin , Jeffrey B. Neaton

The transport properties of quantum dots with up to N=7 electrons ranging from the weak to the strong interacting regime are investigated via the projected Hartree-Fock technique. As interactions increase radial order develops in the dot,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 F. Cavaliere , U. De Giovannini , M. Sassetti , B. Kramer

Helical trilayer graphene realizes a versatile moir\'e system for exploring correlated topological states emerging from high Chern bands. Motivated by recent experimental observations of anomalous Hall effects at fractional fillings of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-02 Sen Niu , Jason Alicea , D. N. Sheng , Yang Peng

We review low and high field magnetotransport in 80 nm-thick strained HgTe, a material that belongs to the class of strong three-dimensional topological insulators. Utilizing a top gate, the Fermi level can be tuned from the valence band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Johannes Ziegler , Dmitriy A. Kozlov , Nikolay N. Mikhailov , Sergey A. Dvoretsky , Dieter Weiss

It is demonstrated that all observed fractions at moderate Landau level fillings for the quantum Hall effect can be obtained without recourse to the phenomenological concept of composite fermions. The possibility to have the special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-19 S. V. Iordanski , D. S. Lubshin

We proposed a theory of quantum anomalous Hall effect in a flat-band ferromagnet on a two-dimensional (2D) decorated lattice with spin-orbit coupling. Free electrons on the lattice have dispersionless flat bands, and the ground state is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

We evaluate the spin density oscillations arising in quantum spin Hall quantum dots created via two localized magnetic barriers. The combined presence of magnetic barriers and spin-momentum locking, the hallmark of topological insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Giacomo Dolcetto , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Matteo Biggio , Fabio Cavaliere , Maura Sassetti

We study the quantum Hall effect in graphene at filling factors \nu = 0 and \nu = \pm, concentrating on the quantum Hall ferromagnetic regime, within a non-perturbative bosonization formalism. We start by developing a bosonization scheme…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 R. L. Doretto , C. Morais Smith

The two-dimensional interacting electron gas at Landau level filling factor $\nu =1$ and temperature $T=0$ is a strong ferromagnet; all spins are completely aligned by arbitrarily weak Zeeman coupling. We report on a theoretical study of…

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

Bulk magnetism in solids is fundamentally quantum mechanical in nature. Yet in many situations, including our everyday encounters with magnetic materials, quantum effects are masked, and it often suffices to think of magnetism in terms of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 N. B. Christensen , H. M. Ronnow , D. F. McMorrow , A. Harrison , T. G. Perring , M. Enderle , R. Coldea , L. P. Regnault , G. Aeppli

Quantum fields are considered as generators of infinite-dimensional Clifford algebra $Cl(\infty)$, which can be either orthogonal (in case of fermions) or symplectic (in case of bosons). A generic quantum state can be expressed as a…

General Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Matej Pavšič

We study quantum Hall ferromagnets in the presence of a random electrostatic impurity potential, within the framework of a classical non-linear sigma model. We discuss the behaviour of the system using a heuristic picture for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-25 D. K. K. Lee , S. Rapsch , J. T. Chalker

Inelastic light scattering measurements of low-lying collective excitations of electron double layers in the quantum Hall state at total filling nu_T=1 reveal a deep magnetoroton in the dispersion of charge-density excitations across the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefano Luin , Vittorio Pellegrini , Aron Pinczuk , Brian S. Dennis , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West

We find a quantum group structure in two-dimensional motion of nonrelativistic electrons in a uniform magnetic field on a torus. The representation basis of the quantum algebra is composed of the quantum Hall wavefunctions proposed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 H. -T. Sato

Constricting transport through a one-dimensional quantum point contact in the quantum Hall regime enables gate-tunable selection of the edge modes propagating between voltage probe electrodes. Here we investigate the quantum Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Karina Hudson , Davide Costa , Davide Degli Esposti , Lucas E. A. Stehouwer , Giordano Scappucci

Quasiparticle excitations in material solids often experience a fictitious gauge field, which can be a potential source of intriguing transport phenomena. Here, we show that low-energy excitations in insulating antiferromagnetic skyrmion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Masataka Kawano

Motivated by the recent discoveries of magnets harboring short-pitch skyrmion lattices, we investigate the skyrmion-size dependence of the topological Hall effect. By means of large-scale real-space calculations, we find that the Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Akira Matsui , Takuya Nomoto , Ryotaro Arita

Recent experiments on twisted bilayer graphene show an anomalous quantum Hall (AQH) effect at filling of $3$ electrons per moir\`e unit cell. The AQH effect arises in an insulating state with both valley- and ferromagnetic order. We argue,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-30 Thomas Bömerich , Lukas Heinen , Achim Rosch