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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

The frictional drag between parallel two-dimensional electron systems has been measured in a regime of strong interlayer correlations. When the bilayer system enters the excitonic quantized Hall state at total Landau level filling factor…

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

Scaling properties of the quantum Hall metal-insulator transition are severely affected by finite size effects in small systems. Surprisingly, despite the narrow spatial range where probability structure functions exhibit multifractal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Moriconi , Ana L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

We study the the interplay between spontaneously broken valley symmetry and spatial disorder in multivalley semiconductors in the quantum Hall regime. In cases where valleys have anisotropic electron dispersion a previous long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Akshay Kumar , S. A. Parameswaran , S. L. Sondhi

Fractionalization is a phenomenon where an elementary excitation partitions into several pieces. This picture explains non-trivial transport through a junction of one-dimensional edge channels defined by topologically distinct quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Chaojing Lin , Masayuki Hashisaka , Takafumi Akiho , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

The localization properties of electron states in the quantum Hall regime are reviewed. The random Landau model, the random matrix model, the tight-binding Peierls model, and the network model of Chalker and Coddington are introduced.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bernhard Kramer , Stefan Kettemann , Tomi Ohtsuki

Quantized anomalous Hall effects (QAHEs) occur in remarkable electronic states which possess not only quantized Hall signals but in some cases regions of dissipationless electron transport. The initial demonstrations of a QAHE in a…

We study localization in layered, three-dimensional conductors in strong magnetic fields. We demonstrate the existence of three phases - insulator, metal and quantized Hall conductor - in the two-dimensional parameter space obtained by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-05 J. T. Chalker , A. Dohmen

We present a microscopical theory and experimental results concerning resistance resonance in two tunneling coupled quantum wells with different mobilities. The shape of the resonance appears to be sensitive to the small angle scattering…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Y. Berk , A. Kamenev , A. Palevski , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We present precision measurements of the fractional quantized Hall effect where the quantized resistance $R^{[1/3]}$ in the fractional quantum Hall state at filling factor 1/3 was compared with a quantized resistance $R^{[2]}$, represented…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Franz J. Ahlers , Martin Götz , Klaus Pierz

We consider a generalization of the 2-dimensional (2D) quantum-Hall insulator to a non-compact, non-Abelian gauge group, the Heisenberg-Weyl group. We show that this kind of insulator is actually a layered 3D insulator with nontrivial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-18 A. Zamora , G. Szirmai , M. Lewenstein

The beauty of quantum Hall (QH) effect is the metrological precision of Hall resistance quantization that originates from the topological edge states. Understanding the factors that lead to quantization breakdown not only provides important…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Weiyan Lin , Yang Feng , Yongchao Wang , Zichen Lian , Hao Li , Yang Wu , Chang Liu , Yihua Wang , Jinsong Zhang , Yayu Wang , Xiaodong Zhou , Jian Shen

We propose a phenomenological model that describes counterflow and drag experiments with quantum Hall bilayers in a \nu_T=1 state. We consider the system consisting of statistically distributed areas with local total filling factors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 D. V. Fil , S. I. Shevchenko

Protected by the chiral symmetry, three dimensional chiral topological insulators are characterized by an integer-valued topological invariant. How this invariant could emerge in physical observables is an important question. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Sheng-Tao Wang , Dong-Ling Deng , Joel E. Moore , Kai Sun , Lu-Ming Duan

The two-dimensional surface of a coupled multilayer integer quantum Hall system consists of an anisotropic chiral metal. This unusual metal is characterized by ballistic motion transverse and diffusive motion parallel (\hat{z}) to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sora Cho , Leon Balents , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We investigate integer and fractional quantum Hall states in quantum point contacts (QPCs) of different geometries, defined in AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures employing different doping and screening techniques. We find that, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 S. Baer , C. Rössler , E. C. de Wiljes , P. -L. Ardelt , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider

We present a new theoretical approach for the integer quantum Hall effect, which is able to describe the inter-plateau transitions as well as the transition to the Hall insulator. We find two regimes (metallic and insulator like) of the top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Oswald , G. Span , F. Kuchar

A theory of transport in the quantum Hall regime is developed for separately contacted double-layer electron systems. Inter-layer tunneling provides a channel for equilibration of the distribution functions in the two layers and influences…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 D. Yoshioka , A. H. MacDonald

Hall viscosity is a non-dissipative response function describing momentum transport in two-dimensional systems with broken parity. It is quantized in the quantum Hall regime, and contains information about the topological order of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 Luca V. Delacretaz , Andrey Gromov

Even though the integer quantum Hall transition has been investigated for nearly four decades its critical behavior remains a puzzle. The best theoretical and experimental results for the localization length exponent $\nu$ differ…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-20 Martin Puschmann , Philipp Cain , Michael Schreiber , Thomas Vojta