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Using a new MBE growth technique, we fabricate a two-dimensional electron system which is bent around an atomically sharp 90 degree corner. In the quantum Hall regime under tilted magnetic fields, we can measure equilibration between both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Grayson , D. Schuh , M. Bichler , G. Abstreiter , L. Hoeppel , J. Smet , K. von Klitzing

We derive electromagnetomotive force fields for charged particles moving in a rotating Hall sample, satisfying a twofold U(1) gauge invariance principle. It is then argued that the phase coherence property of quantization of the line…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe R. Fischer , Nils Schopohl

We have performed low-temperature transport measurements on a disordered two-dimensional electron system (2DES). Features of the strong localization leading to the quantum Hall effect are observed after the 2DES undergoes a direct…

We have introduced a controllable nano-scale incursion into a potential barrier imposed across a two-dimensional electron gas, and report on the phenomena that we observe as the incursion develops. In the quantum Hall regime, the…

The integer quantum Hall effect can be observed in a two-dimensional conductor penetrated by a perpendicular magnetic field and with edges connecting the current carrying contacts. Its signature is a state of quantized Hall and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Serkan Sirt , Vladimir Y. Umansky , Afif Siddiki , Stefan Ludwig

We discuss the development of a sensitive electrometer that utilizes a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall regime. As a demonstration, we measure the evolution of the Landau levels in a second, nearby 2DEG as the applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. H. Ho , L. J. Taskinen , A. P. Micolich , A. R. Hamilton , P. Atkinson , D. A. Ritchie

We consider the quantum Hall effect in quantum electrodynamics and find a deviation from the quantum mechanical prediction for the Hall conductivity due to radiative antiscreening of electric charge in an external magnetic field. A weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-22 Alexander A. Penin

The quantum Hall effect arises from the interplay between localized and extended states that form when electrons, confined to two dimensions, are subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. The effect involves exact quantization of all the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Ilani , J. Martin , E. Teitelbaum , J. H. Smet , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky , A. Yacoby

In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina

A recent experiment [Cohen et al., Science 382, 542 (2023)] observed a robustly quantized $e^2/2h$ conductance in a quantum point contact between fractional quantum Hall edges (a quantum Hall transformer), which then vanishes at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Stuart Yi-Thomas , Jay D. Sau

Comparing with the spin of electron, the electronic orbitals, which have been long ignored in non-equilibrium transport, are getting more and more attentions, due to the prediction and experimental verification of orbital Hall effect (OHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Xin Li

Experimental studies of the transitions from a primary quantum Hall (QH) liquid at filling factor 1/k (with k an odd integer) to the insulator have indicated a ``quantized Hall insulator'' (QHI) behavior: while the longitudinal resistivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Efrat Shimshoni

We study the hitherto un-addressed phenomenon of Quantum Hall Effect with a magnetic and electric fields oscillating in time with resonant frequencies. This phenomenon realizes an example of heterodyne device with the magnetic field acting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Takashi Oka , Leda Bucciantini

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a fundamental quantum transport phenomenon that manifests as a quantized transverse conductance in response to a longitudinally applied electric field in the absence of an external magnetic field,…

The quantum Hall conductance of a disordered two-dimensional gas of non-interacting electrons is re-examined for its integrity against disorder in the limit of no mixing between different Landau levels. The exact one-electron eigenstates of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kumar

Quantum Hall effect (QHE) is the basis of modern resistance metrology. In Quantum Hall Array Resistance Standards (QHARS), several individual QHE elements, each one having the same QHE resistance (typically half of the von Klitzing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-11-05 Massimo Ortolano , Marco Abrate , Luca Callegaro

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is extensively studied, but the explanation for Hall plateau widths and excitation energy gaps remains elusive. We study the effective theory of FQHE built upon experimental inputs of Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Jongbae Hong , Soo-Jong Rey

Since the experimental realisation of the integer quantised Hall effect in a two dimensional electron system subject to strong perpendicular magnetic fields in 1980, a central question has been the interrelation between the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 E. M. Kendirlik , S. Sirt , S. B. Kalkan , N. Ofek , V. Umansky , A. Siddiki

We investigate the theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect (QHE) proposed a long time ago by Lopez and Fradkin \cite{Fradkin1991chern} to describe the principal Jain series. The magnetic fluxes of the statistical gauge field attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 M. Selch , M. A. Zubkov , Souvik Pramanik , M. Lewkowicz

Over a long period of exploration, the successful observation of quantized version of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in thin film of magnetically-doped topological insulator completed a quantum Hall trio---quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Hongming Weng , Rui Yu , Xiao Hu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang