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We investigate the spectrum of interacting electrons at arbitrary filling factors in the limit of vanishing Zeeman splitting. The composite fermion theory successfully explains the low-energy spectrum {\em provided the composite fermions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 X. G. Wu , J. K. Jain

We present a mean field theory of composite fermion edge channel transport in the fractional and integer quantum Hall regimes. An expression relating the electro-chemical potentials of composite fermions at the edges of a sample to those of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 George Kirczenow , Brad L. Johnson

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 wide GaAs quantum wells where two electric subbands are occupied we apply a parallel magnetic field or increase the electron density to cause a crossing of the two $N=0$ Landau levels of these subbands and with opposite spins. Near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , J. Shabani , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

This paper reviews progress on the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE) based on what we term hamiltonian theories, i.e., theories that proceed from the microscopic electronic hamiltonian to the final solution via a sequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect arises from strong electron correlations in a quantising magnetic field, and features exotic emergent phenomena such as electron fractionalisation. Using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Ben Currie , Evgeny Kozik

The fractional quantum Hall effect is a very particular manifestation of electronic correlations in two-dimensional systems in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. It arises as a consequence of a strong Coulomb repulsion between electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Mark O. Goerbig

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

A quantum statistical theory is developed for a fractional quantum Hall effects in terms of composite bosons (fermions) each of which contains a conduction electron and an odd (even) number of fluxons. The cause of the QHE is by assumption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Shigeji Fujita , Akira Suzuki , H. C. Ho

We argue that a correlated fluid of electrons and holes can exhibit a fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field analogous to the Laughlin state at filling $1/m$. We introduce a variant of the Laughlin wavefunction for electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Yichen Hu , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , C. L. Kane

We study the interplay between quantum Hall ordering and spontaneous sublattice symmetry breaking in multiple Chern number bands at fractional fillings. Primarily we study fermions with repulsive interactions near half filling in a family…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Akshay Kumar , Rahul Roy , S. L. Sondhi

For topologically nontrivial and very narrow bands, Coulomb repulsion between electrons has been predicted to give rise to a spontaneous fractional quantum-Hall (FQH) state in absence of magnetic fields. Here we show that strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-22 Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Stefanos Kourtis , Jeroen van den Brink , Maria Daghofer

We report on an observation of a fractional quantum Hall effect in an ultra-high quality two-dimensional hole gas hosted in a strained Ge quantum well. The Hall resistance reveals precisely quantized plateaus and vanishing longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Q. Shi , M. A. Zudov , C. Morrison , M. Myronov

The fractional quantum Hall effect remains a captivating area in condensed matter physics, characterized by strongly correlated topological order, which manifests as fractionalized excitations and anyonic statistics. Numerical simulations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Yi Yang , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

The sequence of prominent fractional quantum Hall states up to $\nu$=5/11 around $\nu$=1/2 in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system confined at oxide heterointerface (ZnO) is analyzed in terms of the composite fermion model. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Denis Maryenko , Joseph Falson , Yusuke Kozuka , Atsushi Tsukazaki , Masaru Onoda , Hideo Aoki , Masashi Kawasaki

Using a time-resolved phonon absorption technique, we have measured the specific heat of a two-dimensional electron system in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime. For filling factors $\nu = 5/3, 4/3, 2/3, 3/5, 4/7, 2/5$ and 1/3 the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Schulze-Wischeler , U. Zeitler , C. v. Zobeltitz , F. Hohls , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , H. Frahm , R. J. Haug

The flux quanta attachment to the electrons creates composite fermions (CFs). The mass, the size and the density of the CF are inconsistent with real material. The sequence of fractional charges which suggest formation of CF agrees with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keshav N. Shrivastava

The electronic properties of graphene are described by a Dirac Hamiltonian with a fourfold symmetry of spin and valley. This symmetry may yield novel fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states at high magnetic field depending on the relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-12 F. Amet , A. J. Bestwick , J. R. Williams , L. Balicas , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The coupled-wire construction provides a useful way to obtain microscopic Hamiltonians for various two-dimensional topological phases, among which fractional quantum Hall states are paradigmatic examples. Using the recently introduced flux…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-23 Yohei Fuji , Akira Furusaki

We report low temperature electronic transport results on the fractional quantum Hall effect of composite fermions at Landau level filling nu = 4/11 in a very high mobility and low density sample. Measurements were carried out at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 W. Pan , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. C. Tsui