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Topological magnetic insulators host chiral gapless edge modes. In the presence of strong interaction effects, the spin of these modes may fractionalize. Studying a 2D array of coupled insulating spin-1/2 chains, we show how spatially…

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This article is based on the talk "Fractional Spin Gravity" presented in the 31st International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Rio de Janeiro, 19-25th June 2016. There we emphasised an implication of the works [1,2] by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-19 Mauricio Valenzuela

Recently we wrote a paper on the theory of the quantum spin Hall effect(QSHE) in two dimensional(2D) topological insulators(TIs)1 which have been considered as do not add much new insight to the exhaustively studied topic of TI within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Yi-Dong Wu

One remarkable feature of strongly correlated systems is the phenomenon of fractionalization where quasiparticles carry only a fraction of the charge or spin of the elementary constituents. Such quasiparticles often present anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Tom Morel , June-Young M. Lee , H. -S. Sim , Christophe Mora

Spin is commonly thought to reflect the true quantum nature of microphysics. We show that spin is related to intrinsic and field-like properties of single particles. These properties change continuously in external magnetic fields.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Hofer

We develop a microscopic formalism to study the fractional quantum Hall plateaus at filling factors $\nu $ away from $1/2\beta$ $\beta$ an integer. The theory is in terms of quasiparticles which carry a charge $e^{\ast}$ equal to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Pasquier

The spin-statistics connection is derived in a simple manner under the postulates that the original and the exchange wave functions are simply added, and that the azimuthal phase angle, which defines the orientation of the spin part of each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Arthur Jabs

Understanding topological matter in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect requires identifying the nature of edge state quasiparticles. FQH edge state at the filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in the spin-polarized and non-polarized phases is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Vadim Ponomarenko , Yuli Lyanda-Geller

Within the newly formulated composite fermion hierarchy the filling fraction of a spherical quantum Hall system is obtained when it can be expressed as an odd or even denominator fraction. A plot of $\nu\frac{2S}{N-1}$ as a function of $2S$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Sitko , J. J. Quinn , D. C. Marinescu

A profound manifestation of topologically non-trivial states of matter is the occurrence of fractionally charged elementary excitations. The quantum spin Hall insulator state is a fundamentally novel quantum state of matter that exists at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We show that the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, a state of matter with topological properties distinct from conventional insulators, can be realized in HgTe/CdTe semiconductor quantum wells. By varying the thickness of the quantum well, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We investigate the 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state with one and two quasiparticle excitations. It is shown that the quasiparticle excitations are best described as excited composite fermions occupying higher composite-fermion quasi-Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Gun Sang Jeon , Jainendra K. Jain

We examine the photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) in a graphene-substrate system with the presence of external magnetic field. In the quantum Hall regime, we demonstrate that the in-plane and transverse spin-dependent splittings in photonic…

A fractional quasiparticle charge is a manifestation of strong interactions in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Nevertheless, shot noise of quasiparticles is well described by a formula, derived for noninteracting charges. We explain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 D. E. Feldman , M. Heiblum

We present Monte Carlo studies of charge expectation values and charge fluctuations for quasi-particles in the quantum Hall system. We have studied the Laughlin wave functions for quasi-hole and quasi-electron, and also Jain's definition of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Kjønsberg , J. M. Leinaas

We study the resonant tunneling of quasiparticles through an impurity between the edges of a Fractional Quantum Hall sample. We show that the one-particle momentum distribution of fractionally charged edge quasiparticles has a quasi-Fermi…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 V. L. Pokrovsky , L. P. Pryadko

The activation gap Delta of the fractional quantum Hall state at constant filling n =1/3 is measured in wide range of perpendicular magnetic field B. Despite the full spin polarization of the incompressible ground state, we observe a sharp…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. F. Dethlefsen , E. Mariani , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , R. J. Haug

In two dimensions, the laws of physics permit existence of anyons, particles with fractional statistics which is neither Fermi nor Bose. That is, upon exchange of two such particles, the quantum state of a system acquires a phase which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. E. Camino , Wei Zhou , V. J. Goldman

Representative wave functions, which encode the topological properties of the spin polarized fractional quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level, can be expressed in terms of correlation functions in conformal field theories. Until…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Thomas Kvorning

The residual interaction between composite fermions (CFs) can express itself through higher order fractional Hall effect. With the help of diagonalization in a truncated composite fermion basis of low-energy many-body states, we predict…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chia-Chen Chang , Sudhansu S. Mandal , Jainendra K. Jain