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We consider the fractional quantum Hall effect at the filling $\nu=6/17$, where experiments have observed features of incompressibility in the form of a minimum in the longitudinal resistance. We propose a parton state denoted as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-26 Ajit C. Balram , A. Wójs

The recent discovery of the 3D quantum Hall effect in $\mathrm{HfTe_5}$ has also revealed puzzling signatures of possible 3D fractionalization. Beyond the first plateau associated with the lowest Landau band, Hall conductivity exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jun-Hong Li , Yi-Yuan Chen , Peng-Lu Zhao , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

The phenomenon of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) was first experimentally observed 33 years ago. FQHE involves strong Coulomb interactions and correlations among the electrons, which leads to quasiparticles with fractional elementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Xi Lin , Rui -Rui Du , Xincheng Xie

We investigated the behavior of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in a two-dimensional electron system with layer thickness and an in-plane magnetic field. Our comparisons across various filling factors within the first Landau level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-26 Dan Ye , Chen-Xin Jiang , Zi-Xiang Hu

We report an experimental investigation of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the even-denominator Landau level filling factor $\nu$ = 1/2 in very high quality wide GaAs quantum wells, and at very high magnetic fields up to 45 T. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 J. Shabani , Y. Liu , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Starting from the Hofstadter butterfly, we define lattice versions of Landau levels as well as a continuum limit which ensures that they scale to continuum Landau levels. By including a next-neighbor repulsive interaction and projecting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. F. Assaad , S. Biskamp

The $\nu=5/2$ fractional quantum Hall effect is a system of intense experimental and theoretical interest as its ground state may host non-abelian excitations, but the exact nature of the ground state is still undetermined. We present the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anthony Tylan-Tyler , Yuli Lyanda-Geller

We report magneto-transport measurements in wide GaAs quantum wells with tunable density to probe the stability of the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factor $\nu = $ 5/2 in the vicinity of the crossing between Landau levels (LLs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Yang Liu , D. Kamburov , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

The energy spectra and wavefunctions of up to 14 interacting quasielectrons (QE's) in the Laughlin nu=1/3 fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state are investigated using exact numerical diagonalization. It is shown that at sufficiently high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arkadiusz Wojs , Kyung-Soo Yi , John J. Quinn

Evidence for developing fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at filling fraction $\nu{=}1/6$ and $1/8$ has recently been reported in wide GaAs quantum wells [Wang \emph{et al.}, PRL {\bf 134}, 046502 (2025)]. In this article, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ajit C. Balram , Anirban Sharma , J. K. Jain

We numerically study the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factors $\nu=12/5$ and 13/5 (the particle-hole conjugate of 12/5) in high-quality two-dimensional GaAs heterostructures via exact diagonalization including finite well width…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-08 Kiryl Pakrouski , Matthias Troyer , Yang-Le Wu , Sankar Das Sarma , Michael R. Peterson

We study the behavior of the extended states of a two-dimensional electron system in silicon in a magnetic field, B. Our results show that the extended states, corresponding to the centers of different Landau levels, merge with the lowest…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 S. V. Kravchenko , Whitney Mason , J. E. Furneaux , V. M. Pudalov

Extensive fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) has been observed in graphene-based materials. Some of the observed fractions are anomalous in that FQHE has not been established at these fractions in conventional GaAs systems. One such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-09 Rakesh K. Dora , Ajit C. Balram

The quantum Hall phase diagram of the half-filled bilayer system in the second Landau level is studied as a function of tunneling and layer separation using exact diagonalization. We make the striking prediction that bilayer structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma

I give a brief review of higher dimensional quantum Hall effect (QHE) and how one can use a general framework to describe the lowest Landau level dynamics as a noncommutative field theory whose semiclassical limit leads to anomaly free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-12 Dimitra Karabali

It is demonstrated that all observed fractions at moderate Landau level fillings in 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 2007-05-23 S. V. Iordanski

Low lying excitations of electron liquids in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime are studied by resonant inelastic light scattering methods. We present here results from charge and spin excitations of FQH states in the lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. F. Hirjibehedin , Irene Dujovne , A. Pinczuk , B. S. Dennis , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

In two-dimensional hole systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells, where the heavy- and light- hole states are close in energy, we observe a very unusual crossing of the lowest two Landau levels as the sample is tilted in magnetic field.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-19 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

We theoretically examine entanglement in fractional quantum hall states, explicitly taking into account and emphasizing the quasi-two-dimensional nature of experimental quantum Hall systems. In particular, we study the entanglement entropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-07 J. Biddle , Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma

We consider the effect of contact interaction in a prototypical quantum spin Hall system of pseudo-spin-1/2 particles. A strong effective magnetic field with opposite directions for the two spin states restricts two-dimensional particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-18 O. Fialko , J. Brand , U. Zuelicke