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The effect of inter-Landau-band mixing on electron localization in an integer quantum Hall system is studied. We find that mixing of localized states with {\it opposite chirality} tends to delocalize the states. This delocalization effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Xiong , Shi-Dong Wang , Qian Niu , Yupeng Wang , X. C. Xie , De-Cheng Tian , X. R. Wang

The single-particle energy spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field consists of equally-spaced spin-split Landau levels, whose degeneracy is proportional to the magnetic field strength. At integer and…

A key feature of the topological surface state under a magnetic field is the presence of the zeroth Landau level at the zero energy. Nonetheless, it has been challenging to probe the zeroth Landau level due to large electron-hole puddles…

For certain measurements, the Corbino geometry has a distinct advantage over the Hall and van der Pauw geometries, in that it provides a direct probe of the bulk 2DEG without complications due to edge effects. This may be important in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 B. A. Schmidt , K. Bennaceur , S. Bilodeau , G. Gervais , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Measurements in very low disorder two-dimensional electrons confined to relatively wide GaAs quantum well samples with tunable density reveal reentrant $\nu=1$ integer quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level near filling factors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Yang Liu , C. G. Pappas , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Mean-field calculations for the two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a large magnetic field with a partially filled Landau level with index $N\geq 2$ consistently yield ``stripe-ordered'' charge-density wave ground-states, for much the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eduardo Fradkin , Steven A. Kivelson

We perform numerical studies to determine if the fractional quantum Hall state observed at filling nu=5/2 is the Moore-Read wavefunction or its particle hole conjugate, the so-called AntiPfaffian. Using a truncated Hilbert space approach we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Edward H. Rezayi , Steven H. Simon

Das, Das, and Mandal (PRL 131, 056202, 2023) examine a wavefunction for nu = 5/2 on a sphere including moderate Landau-Level mixing evaluated perturbatively. The wavefunction they find is not a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Steven H. Simon

We numerically study the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factors $\nu=12/5$ and 13/5 (the particle-hole conjugate of 12/5) in high-quality two-dimensional GaAs heterostructures via exact diagonalization including finite well width…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-08 Kiryl Pakrouski , Matthias Troyer , Yang-Le Wu , Sankar Das Sarma , Michael R. Peterson

We have measured the magnetoresistance of a very low density and an extremely high quality two-dimensional hole system. With increasing magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the sample we observe the sequence of insulating, $\nu=1/3$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. A. Csathy , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

At low Landau level filling of a two-dimensional electron system, typically associated with the formation of an electron crystal, we observe local minima in Rxx at filling factors nu=2/11, 3/17, 3/19, 2/13, 1/7, 2/15, 2/17, and 1/9. Each of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Pan , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

A low energy action for double-layer quantum Hall systems at filling fractions $\nu = 2/m$ ($m$ an odd integer) is introduced. Interlayer antiferromagnetic exchange induces a phase with canted spin order, and also a spin-singlet phase.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Das Sarma , Subir Sachdev , Lian Zheng

Landau levels are the eigenstates of a charged particle in two dimensions under a magnetic field, and are at the heart of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects, which are two prototypical phenomena showing topological features.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Bruno Mera , Tomoki Ozawa

Gated GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures were used to determine the low-temperature behavior of the two-dimensional electron gas near filling factor nu=1/2 in the disorder-magnetic-field plane. We identify a line on which sigma_{xy} is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. W. Wong , H. W. Jiang , W. J. Schaff

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

Besides Laughlin/composite Fermion liquid, and Wigner solid, there have been proposals for Hall crystals and condensed phases of skyrmions for inclusion in the QHE systems phase diagram. Some results on Hall crystals are reported, which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro Cabo , Francisco Claro , Norman N. March

Until the late 1980s, phases of matter were understood in terms of Landau's symmetry breaking theory. Following the discovery of the quantum Hall effect the introduction of a second class of phases, those with topological order, was…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-09 N. Samkharadze , K. A. Schreiber , G. C. Gardner , M. J. Manfra , E. Fradkin , G. A. Csáthy

A transport study of two-dimensional (2D) holes confined to wide GaAs quantum wells provides a glimpse of a subtle competition between different many-body phases at Landau level filling $\nu=3/2$ in tilted magnetic fields. At large tilt…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Yang Liu , M. A. Mueed , Md. Shafayat Hossain , S. Hasdermir , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

We discuss the orbital effect of a tilted magnetic field on the quantum Hall effect in parabolic quantum wells. Many-body states realized at the fractional 1/3 and 1/2 filling of the second electronic subband are studied using finite-size…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Z. Papic

We report on magneto-transport studies of dual-gated, Bernal-stacked trilayer graphene (TLG) encapsulated in boron nitride crystals. We observe a quantum Hall effect staircase which indicates a complete lifting of the twelve-fold degeneracy…