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We study the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect on a honeycomb lattice at half-filling (graphene) in the presence of disorder and electron-electron interactions. We show that the interactions between the delocalized chiral edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional topological insulating state that has quantized Hall resistance of h/Ce2 and vanishing longitudinal resistance under zero magnetic field, where C is called the Chern number. The…

We investigate the possibility of observing the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in two dimensional paramagnetic systems. We apply the semiclassical equations of motion to carriers in the conduction and valence bands of wurtzite and zincblende…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitrie Culcer , Allan MacDonald , Qian Niu

The low-lying excitations of a quantum Hall state on a disk geometry are edge excitations. Their dynamics is governed by a conformal field theory on the cylinder defined by the disk boundary and the time variable. We give a simple and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Cappelli , G. V. Dunne , C. A. Trugenberger , G. R. Zemba

The quasi-quantized Hall effect (QQHE) is the three-dimensional (3D) counterpart of the integer quantum Hall effect (QHE),exhibited only by two-dimensional (2D) electron systems. It has recently been observed in layered materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Rafał Wawrzyńczak , Stanislaw Galeski , Jonathan Noky , Yan Sun , Claudia Felser , Johannes Gooth

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, a condensed matter analog of the parity anomaly, is characterized by a quantized Hall conductivity in the absence of an external magnetic field. However, it has been recently shown that, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Jan Böttcher , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We report the observation of the quantized Hall effect in suspended graphene probed with a two-terminal lead geometry. The failure of earlier Hall-bar measurements is discussed and attributed to the placement of voltage probes in mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-22 I. Skachko , X. Du , F. Duerr , A. Luican , D. A. Abanin , L. S. Levitov , E. Y. Andrei

We derive the effective action for a moving magnetic-field-induced spin-density wave (FISDW) in quasi-one-dimensional conductors at zero and nonzero temperatures by taking the functional integral over the electron field. The effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor M. Yakovenko , Hsi-Sheng Goan

The fractional quantum hall effect (FQHE) is a milestone of modern day physics, its disovery paved the way for the study of fractional charges which do not obey abelian physics. However, all FQHE require an external magnetic field in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Christopher Sims

We study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in graphene based on the current injection model. In our model, the presence of disorder, the edge-state picture, extended states and localized states, which are believed to be indispensable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Tobias Kramer , Christoph Kreisbeck , Viktor Krueckl , Eric J Heller , Robert E Parrott , Chi-Te Liang

We analyze the effect that the Coulomb interaction has on the edge excitations of an electron gas confined in a bar of thickness $W$, and in presence of a magnetic field corresponding to filling factor 1 Quantum Hall effect. We find that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Franco , L. Brey

We construct a generalization of the quantum Hall effect, where particles move in four dimensional space under a SU(2) gauge field. This system has a macroscopic number of degenerate single particle states. At appropriate integer or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-05 Shou-Cheng Zhang , Jiangping Hu

Motivated by the observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene, we consider the effective field theory of relativistic quantum Hall states. We find that, beside the Chern-Simons term, the effective action also contains a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 Siavash Golkar , Matthew M. Roberts , Dam Thanh Son

Magnetotransport measurements on two-dimensional electrons confined to wide GaAs quantum wells reveal a remarkable evolution of the ground state at filling factor $\nu=1/2$ as we tilt the sample in the magnetic field. Starting with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-08 Sukret Hasdemir , Yang Liu , H. Deng , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

When phonons couple to fermions in 2D semimetals, the interaction may turn the system into an insulator. There are several insulating phases in which the time reversal and the sublattice symmetries are spontaneously broken. Examples are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

In two-dimensional (2D) electron systems under strong magnetic fields, interactions can cause fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects. Bringing two 2D conductors to proximity, a new set of correlated states can emerge due to interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bertrand Halperin , Philip Kim

Controlling quantum phases of materials with vacuum field fluctuations in engineered cavities is a novel route towards the optical control of emergent phenomena. We demonstrate, using magnetotransport measurements of a high-mobility…

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

We study the role of the Hall current and electron inertia in collisionless magnetic reconnection within the framework of full two-fluid MHD. At spatial scales smaller than the electron inertial length, a topological change of magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Nahuel Andrés , Pablo Dmitruk , Daniel Gómez

The discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect in the early eighties of the last century, with highly precise quantization values for the Hall conductance in multiples of $e^2/h$, has been the first fascinating manifestation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Alessandro Cresti , Branislav K. Nikolić , Jose Hugo García , Stephan Roche