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Making use of refermionization techniques, we map the nonlinear chiral Luttinger liquid model of the edge modes of a spatially confined fractional quantum Hall cloud developed in our recent work [Phys. Rev. A 107, 033320 (2023)] onto a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Alberto Nardin , Iacopo Carusotto

We present a detailed theory of transport through line junctions formed by counterpropagating single-branch fractional-quantum-Hall edge channels having different filling factors. Intriguing transport properties are exhibited when strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Zuelicke , E. Shimshoni

The electromagnetic characteristics of the fractional quantum Hall states are studied by formulating an effective vector-field theory that takes into account projection to the exact Landau levels from the beginning. The effective theory is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Shizuya

We argue that a correlated fluid of electrons and holes can exhibit a fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field analogous to the Laughlin state at filling $1/m$. We introduce a variant of the Laughlin wavefunction for electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Yichen Hu , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , C. L. Kane

I demonstrate that the wavefunction for a nu = n+ tilde{nu} quantum Hall state with Landau levels 0,1,...,n-1 filled and a filling fraction tilde{nu} quantum Hall state with 0 < tilde{nu} \leq 1 in the nth Landau level can be obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 Parsa Bonderson

Graphene and its multilayers have attracted considerable interest owing to the fourfold spin and valley degeneracy of their charge carriers, which enables the formation of a rich variety of broken-symmetry states and raises the prospect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Benjamin Krauss , Dmitry Abanin , Bertrand. I. Halperin , Jurgen H. Smet , Amir Yacoby

It is demonstrated that an understanding of the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect can be achieved within the composite fermion theory without appealing to the Pfaffian wave function. The residual interaction between composite fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Csaba Toke , Jainendra K. Jain

Excitons, Coulomb-driven bound states of electrons and holes, are typically composed of integer charges. However, in bilayer systems influenced by charge fractionalization, a more exotic form of interlayer exciton can emerge, where pairing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Naiyuan J. Zhang , Ron Q. Nguyen , Navketan Batra , Xiaoxue Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , D. E. Feldman , J. I. A. Li

We provide details of a shorter letter and cond-mat/9702098 and some new results. We describe a Chern-Simons theory for the fractional quantum Hall states in which magnetoplasmon degrees of freedom enter. We derive correlated wavefunctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

This is an introduction to the microscopic theories of the FQHE. After a brief description of experiments, trial wavefunctions and the physics they contain are discussed. This is followed by a description of the hamiltonian approach,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Shankar

Certain fractional quantum Hall edges have been predicted to undergo quantum phase transitions which reduce the number of edge channels and at the same time bind electrons together. However, detailed studies of experimental signatures of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Christian Spånslätt , Ady Stern , Alexander D. Mirlin

We show that in the limit of vanishing bare electron effective mass, and in the presence of particle-hole symmetric disorder (which can be of vanishing strength), the composite fermion Hall conductance is constrained to be $-{1\over…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D-H Lee , Y. Krotov , J. Gan , S. A. Kivelson

We study the quantum Hall effect in the surface states of topological insulator in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field in the framework of edge states. Motion of Dirac fermions will form descrete Landau levels, among which a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Shun-Qing Shen

Protected edge modes are the cornerstone of topological states of matter. The simplest example is provided by the integer quantum Hall state at Landau level filling unity, which should feature a single chiral mode carrying electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Udit Khanna , Moshe Goldstein , Yuval Gefen

Heat transport has large potentialities to unveil new physics in mesoscopic systems. A striking illustration is the integer quantum Hall regime, where the robustness of Hall currents limits information accessible from charge transport.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 C. Altimiras , H. le Sueur , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly , F. Pierre

It has long been puzzling that fractional quantum Hall states in the first excited Landau level (1LL) often differ significantly from their counterparts in the lowest Landau level. We show that the dispersion of composite fermions (CFs) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Hao Jin , Junren Shi

Electrons in a quantum Hall fluid can bind with an integer number of vortices to form composite fermions and composite bosons. We show that the quantum Hall bilayer at filling $\nu=\frac{1}{4}+\frac{3}{4}$ with interlayer separation $d$ can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen

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

We consider the electronic analog of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer from quantum optics. In this realistic condensed matter device, single electrons are injected and travel along opposite chiral edge states of the integer quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 J. Rech , C. Wahl , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

Quasiperiodically driven fermionic systems can support topological phases not realized in equilibrium. The fermions are localized in the bulk, but support quantized energy currents at the edge. These phases were discovered through an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 David M. Long , Philip J. D. Crowley , Anushya Chandran