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Our microscopic understanding of the integer quantum Hall effect is still incomplete. For decades, there has been a controversial discussion about "where the current flows" if the Hall resistance is quantized. Here, we qualitatively analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Serkan Sirt , Stefan Ludwig

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) realizes dissipationless longitudinal resistivity and quantized Hall resistance without the need of an external magnetic field. However, when reducing the device dimensions or increasing the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Gertjan Lippertz , Andrea Bliesener , Anjana Uday , Lino M. C. Pereira , A. A. Taskin , Yoichi Ando

We observe sharp peaks and strong hysteresis in the electronic transport of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the region of the integral quantum Hall effect. The peaks decay on time scales ranging from several minutes to more than an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Zhu , H. L. Stormer , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We present a theoretical framework to describe the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) in three-dimensional (3D) electron systems. This extends our previous single-electron approach, which was successfully applied to two-dimensional (2D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 M. A. Hidalgo

The quantum Hall effect is observed in a two-dimensional electron gas formed in millimeter-scale hydrogenated graphene, with a mobility less than 10 $\mathrm{cm^{2}/V\cdot s}$ and corresponding Ioffe-Regel disorder parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 J. Guillemette , S. S. Sabri , B. Wu , K. Bennaceur , P. E. Gaskell , M. Savard , P. L. Lévesque , F. Mahvash , A. Guermoune , M. Siaj , R. Martel , T. Szkopek , G. Gervais

The quantum Hall effect (QHE) in two-dimensional (2D) electron gases, which is one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics, involves the topologically protected dissipationless charge current flow along the edges of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-02 Y. Kasahara , T. Ohnishi , Y. Mizukami , O. Tanaka , Sixiao Ma , K. Sugii , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda

To fully appreciate the impacts that the discovery of the quantum Hall effect had on electrical metrology, it may benefit the reader to cultivate a general understanding of the phenomenon. Two-dimensional electron systems can exhibit many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Albert F. Rigosi

The observed quantization of the Hall conductivity in graphene at high magnetic fields is explained as being due to the dynamically generated spatial modulation of either the electron spin or the density, as decided by the details of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor F. Herbut

Up to almost the last two decades all the experimental results concerning the quantum Hall effect (QHE), i.e., the observation of plateaux at integer (IQHE) or fractional (FQHE) values of the constant h/e2, were related to quantum-wells in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 M. A. Hidalgo

The quantum Hall effect (QHE) is traditionally considered a purely two-dimensional (2D) phenomenon. Recently, a three-dimensional (3D) version of the QHE has been reported in the Dirac semimetal ZrTe5. It was proposed to arise from a…

Quantum Hall effect (QHE) is one of the most fruitful research topics in condensed-matter physics. Ordinarily, the QHE manifests in a ground state with time-reversal symmetry broken by magnetization to carry a quantized chiral edge…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-15 Yinong Zhou , Gurjyot Sethi , Hang Liu , Zhengfei Wang , Feng Liu

The thermodynamic potential of an ideal nonrelativistic gas of two-dimensional electrons in crossed uniform magnetic and electric fields is constructed. For low temperatures and very weak electric fields, it is shown that the Hall…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Khalilov , Chi Yang

We investigated experimentally non-equilibrium state of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) regime, studying the hysteresis of magnetoresistance of a 2DEG with a constriction. The large amplitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 M. V. Budantsev , D. A. Pokhabov , A. G. Pogosov , E. Yu. Zhdanov , A. K. Bakarov , A. I. Toropov

Can a generic magnetic insulator exhibit a Hall current? The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is one example of an insulating bulk carrying a quantized Hall conductivity and other insulators (with zero Chern number) present zero Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

A two-dimensional array of quantum dots in a magnetic field is considered. The electrons in the quantum dots are described as unitary random matrix ensembles. The strength of the magnetic field is such that there is half a flux quantum per…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Ziegler

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) stands as a quintessential manifestation of an interacting two-dimensional electron system. One of FQHE's most fundamental characteristics is the energy gap separating the incompressible ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 K. A. Villegas Rosales , P. T. Madathil , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

We present a drop model for integer and fractional quantum Hall effects (FQHE). We show that the two-dimensional electron gas breaks up into regions with filling factors {\nu} = 1 and {\nu} = 0 in disk geometry, and the formation of drops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 A. A. Vasilchenko

We show that the chiral kagome ice manifold exhibits an anomalous integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) when coupled to itinerant electrons. Although electron-mediated interactions select a magnetically ordered ground state, the full ice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Gia-Wei Chern , Armin Rahmani , Ivar Martin , Cristian D. Batista

The discovery of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in 1980 marked a turning point in condensed matter physics: given appropriate experimental conditions, the Hall conductivity {\sigma}_xy of a two-dimensional (2D) electron system is exactly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Johannes Gooth , Stanislaw Galeski , Tobias Meng

The fractional quantum Hall effect in 2D electron gases submitted to large magnetic fields remains one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics. Historically, the first observed signature is a Hall resistance quantized to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Nicolas Rougerie