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The two-dimensional electron gas in a bilayer quantum Hall system can sustain an interlayer coherence at filling factor nu=1 even in the absence of tunneling between the layers. This system has low-energy charged excitations which may carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-09 R. Cote , D. B. Boisvert , J. Bourassa , M. Boissonneault , H. A. Fertig

We study the magnetoplasmon collective mode excitations of integer quantum Hall systems in a parabolically confined quantum well nanostructure in the presence of a tilted magnetic field by using the time-dependent Hartree-Fock…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daw-Wei Wang , S. Das Sarma , Eugene Demler , Bertrand I. Halperin

Exploring a classical solution of the non-linear sigma model for a quantum Hall ferromagnet, a skyrmion-magnon effective hamiltonian is obtained via the collective coordinates method. Using the Feynman-Vernon functional integral formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Villares Ferrer , A. O. Caldeira

We report on a microscopic theory of the Skyrmion states which occur in the quantum Hall regime. The theory is based on the identification of Skyrmion states in this system with zero-energy eigenstates of a hard-core model Hamiltonian. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. H. MacDonald , H. A. Fertig , Luis Brey

The quantum spin Hall effect is conventionally thought to require a strong spin-orbit coupling, producing an effective spin-dependent magnetic field. However, spin currents can also be present without transport of spins, for example, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Tianqi Chen , Tim Byrnes

Recent discovery of Skyrmion crystal phase in insulating multiferroic compound Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ calls for new ways and ideas to manipulate the Skyrmions in the absence of spin transfer torque from the conduction electrons. It is shown here…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-04 Ye-Hua Liu , You-Quan Li , Jung Hoon Han

Investigations of spin squeezing in ensembles of quantum particles have been limited primarily to a subspace of spin fluctuations and a single spatial mode in high-spin and spatially extended ensembles. Here, we show that a wider range of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Jay D. Sau , S. R. Leslie , Marvin L. Cohen , D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Fractional quantum Hall liquids exhibit a rich set of excitations, the lowest-energy of which are the magnetorotons with dispersion minima at a finite momentum. We propose a theory of the magnetorotons on the quantum Hall plateaux near half…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Siavash Golkar , Dung Xuan Nguyen , Matthew M. Roberts , Dam Thanh Son

We report inelastic light scattering experiments in the fractional quantum Hall regime at filling factors $\nu\lesssim1/3$. A spin mode is observed below the Zeeman energy. The filling factor dependence of the mode energy is consistent with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Gallais , T. H. Kirschenmann , C. F. Hirjibehedin , I. Dujovne , A. Pinczuk , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

In this article, we discuss the effect of the zero point quantum fluctuations to improve the results of the minimal field theory which has been applied to study %SMG the skyrmions in the quantum Hall systems. Our calculation which is based…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Abolfath

We apply the theory of elasticity to study the effects of skyrmion mass on lattice dynamics in quantum Hall systems. We find that massive Skyrme lattices behave like a Wigner crystal in the presence of a uniform perpendicular magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 M. Abolfath , Kieran Mullen , H. T. C. Stoof

It is well known that the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE) may be effectively represented by a Chern-Simons theory. In order to incorporate QH Skyrmions, we couple this theory to the topological spin current, and include the Hopf term.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Baez , A. P. Balachandran , A. Stern , A. Travesset

Skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that can arise in non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic materials. In most systems experimentally investigated to date, skyrmions emerge as classical objects. However, the discovery of skyrmions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-07 Andreas Haller , Solofo Groenendijk , Alireza Habibi , Andreas Michels , Thomas L. Schmidt

The quantum anomalous Hall effect has been theoretically predicted and experimentally verified in magnetic topological insulators. In addition, the surface states of these materials exhibit a hedgehog-like "spin" texture in momentum space.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Narayan Mohanta , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

Magnetic skyrmions are magnetic textures with topological protection, which are expected to be information carriers in future spintronic devices. In this work, we propose a scheme to implement hybrid magnetic skyrmions (HMS) in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Y. Liu , T. T. Liu , Z. P. Hou , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

A magnetic field applied to a three-dimensional antiferromagnetic metal can destroy the long-range order and thereby induce a quantum critical point. Such field-induced quantum critical behavior is the focus of many recent experiments. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Fischer , A. Rosch

Quantum Hall ferromagnetic transitions are typically achieved by increasing the Zeeman energy through in-situ sample rotation, while transitions in systems with pseudo-spin indices can be induced by gate control. We report here a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 T. M. Lu , L. A. Tracy , D. Laroche , S. -H. Huang , Y. Chuang , Y. -H. Su , J. -Y. Li , C. W. Liu

Spin polarization measurements were performed in three 2D Electron Gases in GaAs with densities n = 9.1, 7.2 and 6.5 x10^10 cm-2, in the quantum Hall regime. Full spin polarization at v = 1 surrounded by rapid depolarization due to Skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Odysseas Williams , Stefan Faelt , Filip Krizek , Werner Wegscheider

We present a microscopic theory for collective excitations of quantum anomalous Hall ferromagnets (QAHF) in twisted bilayer graphene. We calculate the spin magnon and valley magnon spectra by solving Bethe-Salpeter equations, and verify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

These pedagogical lecture notes present a general introduction to most aspects of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects. This is followed by an extensive discussion of quantum Hall ferromagnetism, both for spins in single-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven M. Girvin