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A theory of transport in the quantum Hall regime is developed for separately contacted double-layer electron systems. Inter-layer tunneling provides a channel for equilibration of the distribution functions in the two layers and influences…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 D. Yoshioka , A. H. MacDonald

We study a simple model of a quantum Hall system with the electrons confined to a linear, narrow channel. The system is mapped to a 1D system which in the low-energy approximation has the form of a Luttinger liquid with different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Mats Horsdal , Jon Magne Leinaas

We calculate the tunneling current for a bilayer quantum Hall system in the interlayer incoherent regime. In order to capture the strong correlation effects we model the layers as two Wigner crystals coupled through interlayer Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. D. Klironomos , A. T. Dorsey

The unique properties of quantum Hall devices arise from the ideal one-dimensional edge states that form in a two-dimensional electron system at high magnetic field. Tunnelling between edge states across a quantum point contact (QPC) has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 F. Martins , S. Faniel , B. Rosenow , H. Sellier , S. Huant , M. G. Pala , L. Desplanque , X. Wallart , V. Bayot , B. Hackens

A theory of transport in the quantum Hall regime is developed for separately contacted double-layer electron systems. Inter-layer tunneling provides a channel for equilibration of the distribution functions in the two layers at the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Daijiro Yoshioka

Theory predicts that quasiparticle tunneling between the counter-propagating edges in a fractional quantum Hall state can be used to measure the effective quasiparticle charge e* and dimensionless interaction parameter g, and thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-18 Iuliana P. Radu , J. B. Miller , C. M. Marcus , M. A. Kastner , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We address the issue of an apparent disagreement between theory and experiment on the I-V characteristic of electron tunneling from a metal to the edge of a two-dimensional electron gas in the fractional quantum Hall regime. A part of our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Dung-Hai Lee , Xiao-Gang Wen

We study the exchange and correlation hole of the valence shell of second row atoms using variational Monte Carlo techniques, especially correlated estimates, and norm-conserving pseudopotentials. The well-known scaling of the valence shell…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Antonio C. Cancio , C. Y. Fong

The chiral Luttinger liquid model for the edge dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field is derived from coarse-graining and a lowest Landau level projection procedure at arbitrary filling factors $\nu<1$ --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto D'Agosta , Roberto Raimondi , Giovanni Vignale

The edge state theory of a class of symmetric double-layer quantum Hall systems with interlayer electron tunneling reduces to the sum of a free field theory and a field theory of a chiral Bose field with a self-interaction of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. D. Naud , Leonid P. Pryadko , S. L. Sondhi

Characterization of the structural and electron transport properties of single chiral molecules provides critical insights into the interplay between their electronic structure and electrochemical environments, providing broader…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Yueqing Shi , Liya Bi , Zihao Wang , Kangkai Liang , Ji-Kun Li , Xiao-Ye Wang , Wan-Lu Li , Shaowei Li

The understanding of the Chern insulator and anomalous quantum Hall effect (AQHE) in terms of chiral edge states in confined systems is the first aim of the paper. The model we use consists in a diatomic square lattice with hopping to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

We consider a fractional quantum Hall bilayer system with an interface between quantum Hall states of filling fractions $(\nu_{\text{top}},\nu_{\text{bottom}})=(1,1)$ and $(1/3,2)$, motivated by a recent approach to engineering artificial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Moshe Goldstein , Yuval Gefen

The electrodynamical response of the edge of a compressible Quantum Hall system affects tunneling into the edge. Using the composite Fermi liquid theory, we derive an effective action for the edge modes interacting with tunneling charge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , A. V. Shytov , B. I. Halperin

We propose direct experimental tests of the effective models of fractional quantum Hall edge states. We first recall a classification of effective models based on the requirement of anomaly cancellation and illustrate the general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Alexey Boyarsky , Juerg Froehlich , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We develop a simple model of surface states for topological insulators, developing matching relations for states on surfaces of different orientations. The model allows one to write simple Dirac Hamiltonians for each surface, and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

In the paper we dscuss experimental results of M. Grayson et al. on tunneling $I$-$V$ characteristics of the quantum Hall edge. We suggest a two step tunneling mechanism involving localized electron states near the edge, which might account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Alekseev , V. Cheianov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

We construct a generalization of the Chalker-Coddington network model to the case of fractional quantum Hall effect, which describes the tunneling between multiple chiral edges. We derive exact local and global duality symmetries of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Leonid P. Pryadko , Karen Chaltikian

Topological magnetic insulators host chiral gapless edge modes. In the presence of strong interaction effects, the spin of these modes may fractionalize. Studying a 2D array of coupled insulating spin-1/2 chains, we show how spatially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Even Thingstad , Pierre Fromholz , Flavio Ronetti , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We study point-contact tunneling in the integer quantum Hall state of bosons. This symmetry-protected topological state has electrical Hall conductivity equal to $2 e^2/h$ and vanishing thermal Hall conductivity. In contrast to the integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-24 Michael Mulligan , Matthew P. A. Fisher