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The two-dimensional electron system (2DES) is a unique laboratory for the physics of interacting particles. Application of a large magnetic field produces massively degenerate quantum levels known as Landau levels. Within a Landau level the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 O. E. Dial , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The infuence of the conduction-electron spin magnetization density, induced in a two-dimensional electron layer by a microwave electromagnetic field, on the rejection and transmission of the field is considered. Because of the induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Victor M. Edelstein

We report the observation of developing fractional quantum Hall states at Landau level filling factors $\nu = 1/2$ and 1/4 in electron systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells with significantly $asymmetric$ charge distributions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Shabani , T. Gokmen , Y. T. Chiu , M. Shayegan

From the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect States on a torus with filling factor nu = 1/p, p odd, we found that for small values of nu such states describe triangular Wigner crystals which are stable configurations. Therefore, the insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jaime Montes

Charge density waves (CDW) in the second and third Landau levels (LL) are investigated by both non-linear electronic transport and noise. The use of a Corbino geometry ensures that only bulk properties are probed, with no contribution from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 K. Bennaceur , C. Lupien , B. Reulet , G. Gervais , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

When the kinetic energy of a collection of interacting two-dimensional (2D) electrons is quenched at very high magnetic fields so that the Coulomb repulsion dominates, the electrons are expected to condense into an ordered array, forming a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yang Liu , H. Deng , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We study the influence of quantizing perpendicular magnetic fields on the ground state of a bilayer with electron and hole fluids separated by an opaque tunnel barrier. In the absence of a field, the ground state at low carrier densities is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Bo Zou , Yongxin Zeng , A. H. MacDonald , Artem Strashko

We have studied magnetotransport properties of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system subject to weak electric fields. At low magnetic field $B$, the differential resistivity acquires a correction $\delta r \propto -\lambda^2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. T. Hatke , M. A. Zudov , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We consider an electron-phonon system in two and three dimensions on square, hexagonal and cubic lattices. The model is a modification of the standard Holstein model where the optical branch is appropriately curved in order to have a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Macris , C. -A. Piguet

We demonstrate the presence of quantum interference effects in van der Waals heterostructures subject to in-plane electric fields. The in-plane field $F$ accelerates carriers through a hybridized band edge, and interlayer Zener tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Nisarga Paul , Gil Refael

We studied the unusual Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) near the charge neutrality point (CNP) in high-mobility graphene sample for magnetic fields up to 18 T. We observe breakdown of the delocalized QHE transport and strong increase in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 L. Zhang , J. Camacho , H. Cao , Y. P. Chen , M. Khodas , D. Kharzeev , A. Tsvelik , T. Valla , I. A. Zaliznyak

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 observation of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in 2D electron gases ushered in investigations of topological phases driven by strong electron correlations. Their remarkable features include fractionalized elementary…

Two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnets drive the advancement in spintronic applications and enable the exploration of exotic magnetism in low-dimensional systems. The entanglement of dual $-$ localized and itinerant $-$ nature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Deepali Sharma , Neeraj Bhatt , Asif Ali , Rajeswari Roy Chowdhury , Chandan Patra , Ravi Prakash Singh , Ravi Shankar Singh

Mani et al. have observed [1] zero-resistance states (ZRS) and energy gaps in a surprising setting: ultrahigh-mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures that contain a two dimensional electron Landau system (2DELS) exhibit vanishing diagonal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Phillips

By means of degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM), we investigate the quantum coherence of electron-hole pairs in the presence of a two-dimensional electron gas in modulation-doped GaAs-AlGaAs quantum wells in the quantum Hall effect regime.…

Effect of dc electric field on transport of highly mobile 2D electrons is studied in wide GaAs single quantum wells placed in titled magnetic fields. The study shows that in perpendicular magnetic field resistance oscillates due to electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 William Mayer , Sergey Vitkalov , A. A. Bykov

Many intriguing quantum states of matter, such as unconventional superconductivity, magnetic phases and fractional quantum Hall physics, emergent from the spatially-correlated localized electrons in the flat band of solid materials. By…

Evidence for developing fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at filling fraction $\nu{=}1/6$ and $1/8$ has recently been reported in wide GaAs quantum wells [Wang \emph{et al.}, PRL {\bf 134}, 046502 (2025)]. In this article, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ajit C. Balram , Anirban Sharma , J. K. Jain

We study the cyclotron resonance in the electron-hole joint Fermi surface of a type-II Weyl semimetal. In magnetic field, the electron and hole pockets touching at the Weyl node are hybridized to form quantized Landau levels corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Mikito Koshino