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The fate of integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) at weak magnetic field is studied numerically in the presence of {\it correlated} disorders. We find a systematic {\it float-up} and {\it merging} picture for extended levels on the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. N. Sheng , Z. Y. Weng , X. G. Wen

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 start the paper with a brief presentation of the main characteristics of graphene, and of the Dirac theory of massless fermions in 2+1 dimensions obtained as the associated low-momentum effective theory, in the absence of external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Beneventano , E. M. Santangelo

We present a theory of the cavity quantum electrodynamics of the graphene cyclotron resonance. By employing a canonical transformation, we derive an effective Hamiltonian for the system comprised of two neighboring Landau levels dressed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 F. M. D. Pellegrino , L. Chirolli , Rosario Fazio , V. Giovannetti , Marco Polini

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

The Hofstadter energy spectrum provides a uniquely tunable system to study emergent topological order in the regime of strong interactions. Previous experiments, however, have been limited to the trivial case of low Bloch band filling where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Lei Wang , Yuanda Gao , Bo Wen , Zheng Han , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Mikito Koshino , James Hone , Cory R. Dean

A two-dimensional lattice model for non-interacting fermions in a magnetic field with half a flux quantum per plaquette and $N$ levels per site is considered. This is a model which exhibits the Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE) in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Ziegler

The ballistic motion of carriers of graphene in an orthogonal electromagnetic field is investigated to explain Hall conductance of graphene under experimental conditions. With the electrical field, all electronic eigen-states have the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ji Luo

The edge states in the integer quantum Hall effect are known to be significantly affected by electrostatic interactions leading to the formation of compressible and incompressible strips at the boundaries of Hall bars. We show here, in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 H. Hettmansperger , F. Duerr , J. B. Oostinga , C. Gould , B. Trauzettel , L. W. Molenkamp

Fractional Quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a unique many-body phenomenon, which was discovered in a two-dimensional electron system placed in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. It is entirely due to the electron-electron interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Vadym Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

The quantum Hall effect was originally observed in a two-dimensional electron gas forming Landau levels when exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field and was later generalized to Chern insulators without net magnetization. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Benjamin Michen , Jan Carl Budich

The analytical expressions for both diagonal and off-diagonal ac and dc conductivities of graphene placed in an external magnetic field are derived. These conductivities exhibit rather unusual behavior as functions of frequency, chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov

We probe quantum Hall effect in a tunable 1-D lateral superlattice (SL) in graphene created using electrostatic gates. Lack of equilibration is observed along edge states formed by electrostatic gates inside the superlattice. We create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Sudipta Dubey , Mandar M. Deshmukh

Broadening of the Landau levels in graphene and the associated quantum Hall plateau-to-plateau transition are investigated numerically. For correlated bond disorder, the graphene-specific n=0 Landau level of the Dirac fermions becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

The reason why the half-integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) is suppressed in graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is unclear. We propose that it might be connected to extended defects in the material and present results for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Anders Bergvall , Johan M. Carlsson , Tomas Lofwander

We review low and high field magnetotransport in 80 nm-thick strained HgTe, a material that belongs to the class of strong three-dimensional topological insulators. Utilizing a top gate, the Fermi level can be tuned from the valence band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Johannes Ziegler , Dmitriy A. Kozlov , Nikolay N. Mikhailov , Sergey A. Dvoretsky , Dieter Weiss

A possible realization of Hall conductivity, quantized at odd integer factors of $e^2/h$ for graphene's honeycomb lattice is proposed. I argue that, in the presence of \emph{uniform} real and pseudo-magnetic fields, the valley degeneracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 Bitan Roy

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

We report on the fate of the quantum Hall effect in graphene under strong laser illumination. By using Floquet theory combined with both a low energy description and full tight-binding models, we clarify the selection rules, the quasienergy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 A. Huamán , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro , Gonzalo Usaj

When smooth, zero-on-average, periodic magnetic and electric fields are applied to a carbon mono-layer (graphene), a gap between the valence and conduction band is introduced. Here this gapped state is studied analytically. It is found that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 I. Snyman