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We investigate the feasibility of many candidate quantum Hall states for two-component bosons in the lowest Landau level. We identify interactions for which spin-singlet incompressible states occur at filling factors $\nu=2/3$, 4/5 and 4/3,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-25 Ying-Hai Wu , Jainendra K. Jain

The Pfaffian quantum Hall states, which can be viewed as involving pairing either of spin-polarized electrons or of composite fermions, are generalized by finding the exact ground states of certain Hamiltonians with k+1-body interactions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Read , E. Rezayi

Strong interactions and topology drive a wide variety of correlated ground states. Some of the most interesting of these ground states, such as fractional quantum Hall states and fractional Chern insulators, have fractionally charged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-07 V. Shingla , Haoyun Huang , A. Kumar , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , G. A. Csáthy

We consider the two lowest Landau levels at half filling. In the higher Landau level (nu =5/2), we find a first order phase transition separating a compressible striped phase from a paired quantum Hall state, which is identified as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. H. Rezayi , F. D. M. Haldane

We compare quantum Hall systems at filling factor 2 to those at filling factors 2/3 and 2/5, corresponding to the exact filling of two lowest electron or composite fermion (CF) Landau levels. The two fractional states are examples of CF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Vyborny , O. Certik , D. Pfannkuche , D. Wodzinski , A. Wojs , J. J. Quinn

Composite fermions have played a seminal role in understanding the quantum Hall effect, particularly the formation of a compressible `composite Fermi liquid' (CFL) at filling factor nu = 1/2. Here we suggest that in multi-layer systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Jason Alicea , Olexei I. Motrunich , G. Refael , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We study the quantum Hall states that appear in the dilute limit of rotating ultracold fermionic gases when a single hyperfine species is present. We show that the p-wave scattering translates into a pure hard-core interaction in the lowest…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Thierry Jolicoeur , Nicolas Regnault

The composite fermion (CF) theory gives both a phenomenological description for many fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, as well as a microscopic construction for large scale numerical calculation of these topological phases. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Bo Yang

A rich pattern of fractional quantum Hall states in graphene double layers can be naturally explained in terms of two-component composite fermions carrying both intra- and inter-layer vortices.

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-23 G. A Csathy , J. K. Jain

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems is explained by the emergent composite fermions (CF) out of ordinary electrons. It is possible to write down explicit wavefunctions explaining many if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Thierry Jolicoeur

We investigate the relationship of the spontaneously inter-layer coherent ``111''state of quantum Hall bilayers at total filling factor \nu=1 to ``mutual'' composite fermions, in which vortices in one layer are bound to electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Y. Veillette , L. Balents , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The Pfaffian fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states are incompressible non-Abelian topological fluids present in a half-filled electron Landau level, where there is a balanced population of electrons and holes. They give rise to half-integral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-19 Alexander Sirota , Sharmistha Sahoo , Gil Young Cho , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

There is increasing experimental evidence for fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factor $\nu=2+3/8$. Modeling it as a system of composite fermions, we study the problem of interacting composite fermions by a number of methods. In our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Csaba Toke , Chuntai Shi , Jainendra K. Jain

By developing an algorithm for evaluating the basis states for the composite fermions with negative effective magnetic field, we perform the composite-fermion-diagonalization study for the fully spin-polarized fractional quantum Hall states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 Sutirtha Mukherjee , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We construct a new representation of composite fermion wave functions in the lowest Landau level which enables Monte Carlo computations at arbitrary filling factors for a fairly large number of composite fermions, thus clearing the way…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 J. K. Jain , R. K. Kamilla

We discuss the possibility of the quantum Hall effect at half-filled Landau level in terms of the pairing of the composite fermions. In the absence of Coulomb energy, we show that the ground state of the system is described by the {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takao Morinari

Recent variational studies have demonstrated that the strongly correlated ground states of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect can be captured using machine learning approaches starting from no prior knowledge of the underlying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Mytraya Gattu

Due to its extremely rich phase diagram, the two-dimensional electron gas exposed to perpendicular magnetic field has been the subject of intense and sustained study. One particularly interesting problem in this system is that of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-24 Katherine A. Schreiber , Gábor A. Csáthy

Pairing of composite fermions provides a possible mechanism for fractional quantum Hall effect at even denominator fractions and is believed to serve as a platform for realizing quasiparticles with non-Abelian braiding statistics. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-05 Tongzhou Zhao , Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain

Electronic stripe/nematic phases are fascinating strongly-correlated states characterized by spontaneous rotational symmetry breaking. In the quantum Hall regime, such phases typically emerge at half-filled, high-orbital-index ($N\geq2$)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Chengyu Wang , Siddharth K. Singh , Chia-Tse Tai , Adbhut Gupta , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Kirk W. Baldwin , Mansour Shayegan