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There is convincing numerical evidence that fractional quantum Hall (FQH)-like ground states arise in fractionally filled Chern bands (FCB). Here we show that the Hamiltonian theory of Composite Fermions (CF) can be as useful in describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

We consider non-unitary similarity transformation, interconnecting the $W_{1+\infty}$ algebra representations for the fractional $\nu=\frac{1}{2p+1}$ and integer $\nu=1$ filling fractions. This transformation corresponds to the introduction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Eliashvili

We give a brief introduction to the phenomenon of the Fractional Quantum Hall effect, whose discovery was awarded the Nobel prize in 1998. We also explain the composite fermion picture which describes the fractional quantum Hall effect as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sumathi Rao

Unconventional fermions with high degeneracies in three dimensions beyond Weyl and Dirac fermions have sparked tremendous interest in condensed matter physics. Here, we study quantum Hall effects (QHEs) in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Yong Xu , L. -M. Duan

We use Pseudo Quantum Electrodynamics to study massive (2+1)D Dirac systems interacting electromagnetically via a U(1) gauge field in (3+1)D. It was recently found in Ref. [1], that an interaction-induced Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-10 S. H. Kooi , N. Menezes , Van Sérgio Alves , C. Morais Smith

We study the interplay between a Coulomb impurity and quasiholes in a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state at finite temperatures. While a repulsive impurity can pin a quasihole and stabilize the FQH state, an attractive impurity cannot bind…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ke Huang , Sankar Das Sarma , Xiao Li

We analyze a recently proposed method to create fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states of atoms confined in optical lattices [A. S{\o}rensen {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 94} 086803 (2005)]. Extending the previous work, we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 Mohammad Hafezi , Anders S. Sorensen , Eugene Demler , Mikhail D. Lukin

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), the last member of Hall family, was predicted to exhibit quantized Hall conductivity e2/h without any external magnetic field. The QAHE shares a similar physical phenomenon with the integer quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cui-Zu Chang , Mingda Li

The 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect in the second Landau level of extremely clean two-dimensional electron gases has attracted much attention due to its topological order predicted to host quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 M. Petrescu , Z. Berkson-Korenberg , Sujatha Vijayakrishnan , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , G. Gervais

The quantum of heat conductance of ballistic one-dimensional (1D) channels, being gQ=k0T with k0=pi^2*2kB^2/3h (T - temperature, kB - Boltzmann's constant, h - Planck's constant), is an important fundamental constant. While the quantization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum , Amir Rosenblatt , Yuval Oreg , Dima E. Feldman , Ady Stern , Vladimir Umansky

The fractional quantum Hall effect remains a captivating area in condensed matter physics, characterized by strongly correlated topological order, which manifests as fractionalized excitations and anyonic statistics. Numerical simulations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Yi Yang , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

The Hall effect, which originates from the motion of charged particles in magnetic fields, has deep consequences for the description of materials, extending far beyond condensed matter. Understanding such an effect in interacting systems…

The composite fermion (CF) theory gives both a phenomenological description for many fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, as well as a microscopic construction for large scale numerical calculation of these topological phases. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Bo Yang

Using acoustic method we study dependences of transverse AC conductance, $\sigma (\omega)$, on magnetic field, temperature and the amplitude of AC electric field in a wide (75 nm) quantum well (QW) structure focusing on the vicinity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , D. Kamburov , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Y. M. Galperin

Remarkable recent experiments have observed fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effects at zero field and unusually high temperatures in twisted semiconductor bilayer $t$MoTe$_2$. Intriguing observations in these experiments such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We address the question of whether fractionally filled bands with a nontrivial Chern index in zero external field could also exhibit a Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). Numerical works suggest this is possible. Analytic treatments are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-13 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

The Pfaffian model has been proposed for the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at nu=5/2. We examine it for the quasihole excitations by comparison with exact diagonalization results. Specifically, we consider the structure of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 Csaba Toke , Nicolas Regnault , Jainendra K. Jain

The microscopic wave functions of the composite fermion theory can incorporate electron mass anisotropy by a trivial rescaling of the coordinates. These wave functions are very likely adiabatically connected to the actual wave functions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-11 Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state is a topological state of matter resulting from the many-body effect of interacting electrons and is of vast interest in fundamental physics. The experimental observation of topological surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-15 Dong-Xia Qu , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava

We report on an observation of a fractional quantum Hall effect in an ultra-high quality two-dimensional hole gas hosted in a strained Ge quantum well. The Hall resistance reveals precisely quantized plateaus and vanishing longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Q. Shi , M. A. Zudov , C. Morrison , M. Myronov