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The nature of a metal--insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions at integer bulk filling, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al. [1], is addressed. We are particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

Quantum Hall Dynamics is formulated on von Neumann lattice representation where electrons in Landau levels are defined on lattice sites and are treated systematically like lattice fermions. We give a proof of the integer Hall effect, namely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Ishikawa , N. Maeda , T. Ochiai , H. Suzuki

Recent experiments have shown that, counterintuitively, applying a magnetic field to a Wigner crystal can induce quantum Hall effects. In this Letter, we use variational Monte Carlo to show that a magnetic field can melt zero-field Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu

Measurement techniques based upon the Hall effect are invaluable tools in condensed matter physics. When an electric current flows perpendicular to a magnetic field, a Hall voltage develops in the direction transverse to both the current…

We report the phase-space defined by the quantum Hall effect breakdown in polymer gated epitaxial graphene on SiC (SiC/G) as a function of temperature, current, carrier density, and magnetic fields up to 30T. At 2K breakdown currents…

Recent developments in the scaling theory of the integer quantum Hall effect are discussed. In particular, the influence of electron-electron interactions on the critical behavior are studied. It is further argued that recent experiments on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bodo Huckestein , Michael Backhaus

In the framework of the edge-channel picture and the scattering approach to conduction, we discuss the low frequency admittance of quantized Hall samples up to second order in frequency. The first-order term gives the leading order…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Buttiker , T. Christen

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 present a microscopic theory for the recently observed reentrant integral quantum Hall effect in the n=1 and n=2 Landau levels. Our energy investigations indicate an alternating sequence of M-electron-bubble and quantum-liquid ground…

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

We derive two new forms of the K\'arm\'an-Howarth-Monin equation for decaying compressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We test them on results of a weakly-compressible, two-dimensional, moderate-Reynolds-number Hall MHD…

This paper reports on an experimental study of the contact resistance of Hall bars in the Quantum Hall Effect regime while increasing the current through the sample. These measurements involve also the longitudinal resistance and they have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. M. Meziani , C. Chaubet , S. Bonifacie , B. Jouault , A. Raymond , W. Poirier , F. Piquemal

We report experimental observation of the reentrant integer quantum Hall effect in graphene, appearing in the N$=$2 Landau level. Similar to high-mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures, the effect is due to a competition between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Shaowen Chen , Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau , Kang Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Mark O. Goerbig , Cory R. Dean

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

In this article we briefly review recent experimental and theoretical work on quantum Hall effect in graphene, and argue that some of the quantum Hall states exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking that is driven by electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Kun Yang

In the present article we investigate the influence of the contact region on the distribution of the chemical potential in integer quantum Hall samples, as well as the longitudinal and Hall resistance as a function of the magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christoph Uiberacker , Christian Stecher , Josef Oswald

In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina

Quantum Hall (QH) states are predicted to display an intriguing non-dissipative stress response to a shear deformation rate, a phenomenon variously known as asymmetric or Hall viscosity, or Lorentz shear response. Just as the QH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Rudro R. Biswas

We study numerically conductance fluctuations near the integer quantum Hall effect plateau transition. The system is presumed to be in a mesoscopic regime, with phase coherence length comparable to the system size. We focus on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Sora Cho , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Motivated by the recent experiment by Marguerite et al. [1] on imaging in graphene samples, we investigate theoretically the dissipation induced by resonant impurities in the quantum Hall regime. The impurity induced forward scattering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Gu Zhang , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

In recent years, counter-intuitive results have shown that the quantum Hall edge states with topological protection can be dissipative. In this paper, we point out that the non-equilibrium nature of edge states in quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun