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We study the non-abelian statistics characterizing systems where counter-propagating gapless modes on the edges of fractional quantum Hall states are gapped by proximity-coupling to superconductors and ferromagnets. The most transparent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 Netanel H. Lindner , Erez Berg , Gil Refael , Ady Stern

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

The ground state at 4/11 filling factor is very well understood [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 016801 (2014)] in terms of the 1/3 filled second effective Landau level of the composite fermions whose correlations resemble with that of electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Sahana Das , Sudipto Das , Sudhansu S. Mandal

Integer and fractional quantum Hall effects were studied with different physics models and explained by different physical mechanisms. In this paper, the common physical mechanism for integer and fractional quantum Hall effects is studied,…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-25 Jianhua wang , Kang Li , Shuming Long , Yi Yuan

Fractional quantum Hall effect energy gaps have been measured in GaAs/GaAlAs heterojunctions as a function of Zeeman energy, which is varied by applying hydrostatic pressure up to 20 kbar. The gap at v=1/3 decreases with pressure until the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. R. Leadley , R. J. Nicholas , D. K. Maude , A. N. Utjuzh , J. C. Portal , J. J. Harris , C. T. Foxon

We establish the quantum mechanics of composite fermions based on the dipole picture initially proposed by Read. It comprises three complimentary components: a wave equation for determining the wave functions of a composite fermion in ideal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Junren Shi

The low-energy dynamics of two-dimensional topological matter hinges on its one-dimensional edge modes. Tunneling between fractional quantum Hall edge modes facilitates the study of anyonic statistics: it induces time-domain braiding that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Gu Zhang , Igor Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

In the context of the fractional quantum Hall effect, we investigate Laughlin's celebrated ansatz for the groud state wave function at fractional filling of the lowest Landau level. Interpreting its normalization in terms of a one component…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 P. Di Francesco , M. Gaudin , C. Itzykson , F. Lesage

Quantum Hall effect wave functions corresponding to the filling factors 1/2p+1, 2/2p+1, ..., 2p/2p+1, 1, are shown to form a basis of irreducible cyclic representation of the quantum algebra U_q(sl(2)) at q^{2p+1}=1. Thus, the wave…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-30 O. F. Dayi

We demonstrate that formulating the composite-fermion theory of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in terms of quaternions greatly expands its reach and opens the door into many interesting issues that were previously beyond the reach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-30 Mytraya Gattu , J. K. Jain

We investigate, using finite size numerical calculations, the spin-polarized fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the first excited Landau level (LL). We find evidence for the existence of an incompressible state at $\nu = \frac{7}{3} =…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lotfi Belkhir , J. K. Jain

By allowing the spin degrees of freedom, we present a generalized spin allowed $U(1)\times U(1)$ Chern-Simons theory of fractional quantum Hall effects for odd and even denominator filling factors in single layers. This theory is shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Tae-Hyoung Gimm , Seung-Pyo Hong , Sung-Ho Suck Salk

Strongly correlated fractional quantum Hall liquids support fractional excitations, which can be understood in terms of adiabatic flux insertion arguments. A second route to fractionalization is through the coupling of weakly interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-04 Armin Rahmani , Rodrigo A. Muniz , Ivar Martin

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

It is well known that in two spatial dimensions the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) deals with point-like anyons that carry fractional electric charge and statistics. Moreover, in presence of a SO(3) order parameter, point-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Giandomenico Palumbo

Much of the present day qualitative phenomenology of the fractional quantum Hall effect can be understood by neglecting the interactions between composite fermions altogether. For example the fractional quantum Hall effect at $\nu=n/(2pn\pm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Seung-Yeop Lee , Vito W. Scarola , J. K. Jain

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

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

Anyons are quasiparticles with fractional statistics, bridging between fermions and bosons. We propose an experimental setup to measure the statistical angle of topological anyons emitted from a quantum point contact (QPC) source. The setup…

The fractional quantum Hall states are non-Fermi liquids of electrons, in that their ground states and low energy excitations are described not in terms of electrons but in terms of composite fermions which are bound states of electrons and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-24 Mytraya Gattu , G. J. Sreejith , J. K. Jain