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Motivated by recent transport experiments, we theoretically study the quantum Hall effect in topological semimetal films. Owing to the confinement effect, the bulk subbands originating from the chiral Landau levels establish energy gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Koji Kobayashi , Jan-Erik R. Wichmann , Kentaro Nomura

A quantum mesoscopic billiard can be viewed as a bounded electronic system due to some external confining potential. Since, in general, we do not have access to the exact expression of this potential, it is usually replaced by a set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 E. Akkermans , R. Narevich

Despite the extensive literature on the quantum Hall effect (QHE), a direct derivation of the phenomenological formula $\rho_{xy} = h/e^2\nu$ from first principles has remained elusive. In this work, we revisit the Landau and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Pedro Pereyra

Exact diagonalization studies have revealed that the energy spectrum of interacting electrons in the lowest Landau level splits, non-perturbatively, into bands, which is responsible for the fascinating phenomenology of this system. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-02 Ajit C. Balram , Arkadiusz Wójs , Jainendra K. Jain

States of strongly interacting particles are of fundamental interest in physics, and can produce exotic emergent phenomena and topological structures. We consider here two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field, and, departing from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-16 Abhishek Anand , Jainendra K Jain , G J Sreejith

We report on a study of the charged-skyrmion or spin-texture excitations which occur in quantum Hall ferromagnets near odd Landau level filling factors. Particle-hole symmetry is used to relate the spin-quantum numbers of charged particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 H. A. Fertig , L. Brey , R. Cote , A. H. MacDonald , A. Karlhede , S. L. Sondhi

Broken symmetry ground states with uniform electron density are common in quantum Hall systems when two Landau levels simultaneously approach the chemical potential at integer filling factor $\nu$. The close analogy between these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

We formulate the Kohn-Sham equations for the fractional quantum Hall effect by mapping the original electron problem into an auxiliary problem of composite fermions that experience a density dependent effective magnetic field.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yayun Hu , J. K. Jain

We consider an electron in two dimensions submitted to a magnetic field and to the potential of impurities. We show that when the electron is confined to a half-space by a planar wall described by a smooth increasing potential, the total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Macris , Ph. A. Martin , J. V. Pule

The intrinsic geometric degree of freedom that was proposed to determine the optimal correlation energy of the fractional quantum Hall states, is analyzed for quantum confined planar electron systems. One major advantage in this case is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Areg Ghazaryan , Tapash Chakraborty

We show that a weak hexagonal periodic potential could transform a two-dimensional electron gas with an even-denominator magnetic filling factor to a quantum anomalous Hall insulator of composite fermions, giving rise to fractionally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yinhan Zhang , Junren Shi

The natures of the ground state in a $\nu_{\rm T}=1$ bilayer quantum Hall system at a variety of layer spacing are investigated. At small layer separations the system exhibits spontaneous interlayer phase coherence. It is claimed that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kentaro Nomura , Daijiro Yoshioka

For two dimensional Schroedinger Hamiltonians we formulate boundary conditions that split the Hilbert space according to the chirality of the eigenstates on the boundary. With magnetic fields, and in particular, for Quantum Hall Systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 E. Akkermans , J. E. Avron , R. Narevich , R. Seiler

An improved composite-boson theory of quantum Hall ferromagnets is formulated both for the monolayer and bilayer systems. In this scheme the field operator describes solely the physical degrees of freedom representing the deviation from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. F. Ezawa

The formation and possible decay processes of neutral and charged excitonic complexes in electronic integral and fractional quantum Hall systems are discussed. The excitonic complexes are bound states of a small number of the relevant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John J Quinn , Arkadiusz Wojs

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 comprehensive numerical study of a microscopic model of the fractional quantum Hall system at filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, based on the disc geometry. Our model includes Coulomb interaction and a semi-realistic confining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xin Wan , Zi-Xiang Hu , E. H. Rezayi , Kun Yang

We present a theory of composite fermion edge states and their transport properties in the fractional and integer quantum Hall regimes. We show that the effective electro-chemical potentials of composite fermions at the edges of a Hall bar…

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

The problem of Bloch electrons in two dimensions subject to magnetic and intense electric fields is investigated, the quantum Hall conductance is calculated beyond the linear response approximation. Magnetic translations, electric evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kunold , M. Torres

We combine the ideas of intensity interferometry, polarization optics and Bell's measurement into an experimental proposal which is hosted in a $\nu\,$=$\,2$ quantum Hall (QH) edge state. Our interferometer comprises of a single gate, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Krishanu Roychowdhury , Disha Wadhawan , Poonam Mehta , Biswajit Karmakar , Sourin Das