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Although time-reversal and inversion symmetry constrain the angular momentum of each phonon mode to vanish, we show that the vacuum state of crystals with such symmetries can nevertheless exhibit finite angular momentum fluctuations, which…

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The interplay of topological order and charge order exhibits rich physics. Recent experiments that succesfully realized the frational quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect in twisted MoTe$_2$ bilayers and rhombohedral multilayer graphene…

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We find mode-locking steps in simulated current-voltage characteristics of driven vortex lattices with {\it random} pinning when an applied ac-current is {\it perpendicular} to the dc-current. For low frequencies there is mode-locking only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro B. Kolton , Daniel Dominguez , Niels Gronbech-Jensen

The unique properties of quantum Hall devices arise from the ideal one-dimensional edge states that form in a two-dimensional electron system at high magnetic field. Tunnelling between edge states across a quantum point contact (QPC) has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 F. Martins , S. Faniel , B. Rosenow , H. Sellier , S. Huant , M. G. Pala , L. Desplanque , X. Wallart , V. Bayot , B. Hackens

Collective modes of exotic quantum fluids reveal underlying physical mechanisms responsible for emergent complex quantum ground states. We observe unexpected new collective modes in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) regime:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Lingjie Du , Ursula Wurstbauer , Ken W. West , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Saeed Fallahi , Geoff C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra , Aron Pinczuk

In case of a of the heterostructure n-GaAs/AlGaAs with sheet density $n=2 \times 10^{11}$cm$^{-2}$ and mobility $\mu \approx 2 \times 10^6$ cm$^2$/V$\cdot$s with integer and fractional quantum Hall effect (IQHE and FQHE, respectively) we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , D. R. Leadley

The integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) belongs to the most fundamental phenomena of solid state physics and has an important application as resistance standard. It serves as a basis to understand the fractional, anomalous or spin QHEs,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Serkan Sirt , Matthias Kamm , Vladimir Y. Umansky , Stefan Ludwig

The quantum Hall effect in graphene p-n junctions is studied numerically with emphasis on the effect of disorder at the interface of two adjacent regions. Conductance plateaus are found to be attached to the intensity of the disorder, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-06 Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

We calculate the non-linear I-V tunneling curves for a two-point-contact tunneling junction between two edges of the $\nu={5/2}$ non-abelian fractional quantum Hall state. The non-linear I-V tunneling curves are calculated for both cases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-02 Bas J. Overbosch , Xiao-Gang Wen

We investigate the influence of the superconducting (S) proximity effect in the quantum Hall (QH) regime by computing the charge conductance flowing through a graphene-based QH/S/QH junction. This situation offers the exciting possibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Pierre Carmier

The nature of a metal--insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions at integer bulk filling, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al. [1], is addressed. We are particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

We consider tunneling between two edges of Quantum Hall liquids (QHL) of filling factors $\nu_{0,1}=1/(2 m_{0,1}+1)$, with $m_0 \geq m_1\geq 0$, through two point contacts forming Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Quasi-particle description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-15 Vadim V. Ponomarenko , Dmitri V. Averin

We analyze a model of resonant point-contact tunneling between multiple Luttinger liquid leads. The model is a variant of the multi-channel Kondo model and can be related to the quantum Brownian motion of a particle on lattices with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Nayak , Matthew P. A. Fisher , A. W. W. Ludwig , H. -H. Lin

We measure the conductance of a quantum point contact (QPC) while the biased tip of a scanning probe microscope induces a depleted region in the electron gas underneath. At finite magnetic field we find plateaus in the real-space maps of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Nikola Pascher , Clemens Rössler , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Christian Reichl , Werner Wegscheider

We have measured the full counting statistics (FCS) of current fluctuations in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) by real-time detection of single electron tunneling with a quantum point contact (QPC). This method gives direct access to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Gustavsson , R. Leturcq , B. Simovic , R. Schleser , T. Ihn , P. Studerus , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

Quantum fluctuations of Coulomb blockade are investigated as a function of the coupling to reservoirs in semiconductor quantum dots. We use fluctuations in the distance between peaks $\Delta N$ apart to characterize both the amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 S. M. Maurer , S. R. Patel , C. M. Marcus , C. I. Duruoz , J. S. Harris,

The understanding of out-of-equilibrium fluctuation relations in small open quantum systems has been a focal point of research in recent years. In particular, for systems with adiabatic time-dependent driving, it was shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Janine Splettstoesser

We theoretically study microwave absorption spectroscopy of fractional quantum Hall droplets in the presence of quasiparticle tunneling across a quantum point contact. This contact-free probe provides access to collective edge dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Fumihiro Murabayashi , Ryotaro Sano , Flavio Ronetti , Jérôme Rech , Thierry Martin , Thibaut Jonckheere , Takeo Kato

We develop a first quantization description of fractional Chern insulators that is the dual of the conventional fractional quantum Hall (FQH) problem, with the roles of position and momentum interchanged. In this picture, FQH states are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Claassen , Ching Hua Lee , Ronny Thomale , Xiao-Liang Qi , Thomas P. Devereaux

We report on the study of the electrical current flowing in weakly coupled superlattice (SL) structures under an applied electric field at very low temperature, i.e. in the tunneling regime. This low temperature transport is characterized…

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