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The two-dimensional electron system in an InAs quantum well has emerged as a prime candidate for hosting exotic quasi-particles with non-Abelian statistics such as Majorana fermions and parafermions. To attain its full promise, however, the…

We consider the bosonic fractional quantum Hall effect in the presence of a non-Abelian gauge field in addition to the usual Abelian magnetic field. The non-Abelian field breaks the twofold internal state degeneracy, but preserves the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-30 Rebecca N. Palmer , Jiannis K. Pachos

We present an experimental study of mesoscopic, two-dimensional electronic systems at high magnetic fields. Our samples, prepared from a low-mobility InGaAs/InAlAs wafer, exhibit reproducible, sample specific, resistance fluctuations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Peled , D. Shahar , Y. Chen , D. L. Sivco , A. Y. Cho

We present experimental results on the quantized Hall insulator in two dimensions. This insulator, with vanishing conductivities, is characterized by the quantization (within experimental accuracy) of the Hall resistance in units of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Hilke , D. Shahar , S. H. Song , D. C. Tsui , Y. H. Xie , M. Shayegan

Since the discovery of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in 1982 there has been considerable theoretical discussion on the possibility of fractional quantization of conductance in the absence of Landau levels formed by a quantizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 S. Kumar , M. Pepper , S. N. Holmes , H. Montagu , Y. Gul , D. A. Ritchie , I. Farrer

Experiments on a nearly spin degenerate two-dimensional electron system reveals unusual hysteretic and relaxational transport in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime. The transition between the spin-polarized (with fill fraction $\nu =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Eom , H. Cho , W. Kang , K. L. Campman , A. C. Gossard , M. Bichler , W. Wegscheider

It is demonstrated that all observed fractions at moderate Landau level fillings for the quantum Hall effect can be obtained without recourse to the phenomenological concept of composite fermions. The possibility to have the special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-19 S. V. Iordanski , D. S. Lubshin

We report the observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect in the lowest Landau level of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES), residing in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Cd(1-x)Mn(x)Te. The presence of magnetic impurities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Betthausen , P. Giudici , A. Iankilevitch , C. Preis , V. Kolkovsky , M. Wiater , G. Karczewski , B. A. Piot , J. Kunc , M. Potemski , T. Wojtowicz , D. Weiss

A fractional quantization in a two dimensional space is proposed. The angular momenta of the two dimensional electrons are quantized in fractional numbers by the boundary conditions on a multi-layered Riemann surface. Extended wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyeong Rag Lee

Two dimensional electron systems exhibiting the fractional quantum Hall effects are characterized by a quantized Hall conductance and a dissipationless bulk. The transport in these systems occurs only at the edges where gapless excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Hoang K. Nguyen , Ganpathy Murthy

We present an approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect observed in grapheme (GFQHE), basing us on the model developed previously for the fractional quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system embedded in a quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 M. A. Hidalgo

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

Recent systematic measurements of the quantum well width dependence of the excitation gaps of fractional quantum Hall states in high mobility samples [Villegas Rosales {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 127}, 056801 (2021)] open the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Tongzhou Zhao , Koji Kudo , W. N. Faugno , Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain

We study the quantum Hall effect of 2D electron gas in black phosphorus in the presence of perpendicular electric and magnetic fields. In the absence of a bias voltage, the external magnetic field leads to a quantization of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Shengjun Yuan , Edo van Veen , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Rafael Roldán

We have studied the fractional and integer quantum Hall effect in high mobility double layer 2D hole gas systems. The large hole effective mass inhibits tunneling, allowing us to investigate the regime in which the interlayer and intralayer…

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is reported in a high mobility CdTe quantum well at mK temperatures. Fully-developed FQH states are observed at filling factor 4/3 and 5/3 and are found to be both spin-polarized ground state for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-16 B. A. Piot , J. Kunc , M. Potemski , D. K. Maude , C. Betthausen , A. Vogl , D. Weiss , G. Karczewski , T. Wojtowicz

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

In the strong magnetic field fractional quantum Hall regime, electrons in a two-dimensional electron system are confined to their lowest Landau level. Because of the macroscopic Landau level degeneracy nearly all physical properties at low…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. H. MacDonald

Strongly correlated electron liquids which occur in quantizing magnetic fields reveal a cornucopia of fascinating quantum phenomena such as fractionally charged quasiparticles, anyonic statistics, topological order, and many others. Probing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 D. A. Abanin , I. Skachko , X. Du , E. Y. Andrei , L. S. Levitov

The fractional quantum Hall state (FQHS) observed in the lowest Landau level at filling factor $\nu=1/2$ in wide quantum wells has been enigmatic for decades because the two-dimensional electron system (2DES) has a bilayer charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Siddharth Kumar Singh , Chengyu Wang , Adbhut Gupta , Kirk W. Baldwin , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Mansour Shayegan