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We present a numerical study of fractional quantum Hall liquid at Landau level filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in a microscopic model including long-range Coulomb interaction and edge confining potential, based on the disc geometry. We find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zi-Xiang Hu , Hua Chen , Kun Yang , E. H. Rezayi , Xin Wan

A system at filling factor 2/3 could be a candidate for a quantum Hall ferromagnet at integer filling factor of composite fermions. Using exact diagonalization with electrons on a torus we study the transition from the singlet ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Karel Vyborny

The evolution of the fractional quantum Hall state at filling 5/2 is studied in density tunable two-dimensional electron systems formed in wide wells in which it is possible to induce a transition from single to two subband occupancy. In 80…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 J. Nuebler , B. Friess , V. Umansky , B. Rosenow , M. Heiblum , K. v. Klitzing , J. Smet

The discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect in GaAs-based semiconductor devices has lead to new advances in condensed matter physics, in particular the possibility for exotic, topological phases of matter that possess fractional,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Z. Papic , D. A. Abanin , Y. Barlas , R. N. Bhatt

We construct a generalization of the quantum Hall effect, where particles move in four dimensional space under a SU(2) gauge field. This system has a macroscopic number of degenerate single particle states. At appropriate integer or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-05 Shou-Cheng Zhang , Jiangping Hu

Motivated by the experiments on double monolayer graphene that observe a variety of fractional quantum Hall states [Liu et al., Nat. Phys. 15, 893 (2019); Li et al., Nat. Phys. 15, 898 (2019)], we study the special setting in which two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-13 Ying-Hai Wu

We show that in quantum Hall systems at half-filling, edge potentials alone can drive transitions between the Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian topological phases. We conjecture this is true in realistic systems even in the presence of weak bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-17 Bo Yang , Na Jiang , Xin Wan , Jie Wang , Zi-Xiang Hu

We provide a characterization of tunneling between coupled topological insulators in 2D and 3D under the influence of a ferromagnetic layer. We explore conditions for such systems to exhibit integer quantum Hall physics and localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Smitha Vishveshwara , Taylor L. Hughes

We study the nature of the \nu=5/2 quantum Hall state in wide quantum wells under the mixing of electronic subbands and Landau levels. We introduce a general method to analyze the Moore-Read Pfaffian state and its particle-hole conjugate,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-07 Z. Papic , F. D. M. Haldane , E. H. Rezayi

A quantum phase transition arises from competition between different ground states and is typically accessed by varying a single physical parameter near absolute zero temperature. The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect with high Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Ruobing Mei , Yi-Fan Zhao , Kaijie Yang , Ruoxi Zhang , Zijie Yan , Han Tay , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

We study the effect of backward scatterings in the tunneling at a point contact between the edges of a second level hierarchical fractional quantum Hall states. A universal scaling dimension of the tunneling conductance is obtained only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Imura , N. Nagaosa

We study the phase diagram of quantum Hall bilayer systems with total filing $\nu_T=1/2+1/2$ of the lowest Landau level as a function of layer distances $d$. Based on numerical exact diagonalization calculations, we obtain three distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-25 Zheng Zhu , Liang Fu , D. N. Sheng

Current Luttinger liquid edge state theories for filling $\nu=2/3$ predict a non-universal Hall conductance, in disagreement with experiment. Upon inclusion of random edge tunnelling we find a phase transition into a new…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 C. L. Kane , M. P. A. Fisher , J. Polchinski

Magnetotransport of conventional semiconductor based double layer systems with barrier suppressed interlayer tunneling has been a rewarding subject due to the emergence of an interlayer coherent state that behaves as an excitonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Dohun Kim , Seyoung Jin , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jurgen H. Smet , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

This review presents experimental results on the inter-edge-state transport in the quantum Hall effect, mostly obtained in the regime of high imbalance. The application of a special geometry makes it possible to perform I-V spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 E. V. Deviatov , A. Lorke

A low energy action for double-layer quantum Hall systems at filling fractions $\nu = 2/m$ ($m$ an odd integer) is introduced. Interlayer antiferromagnetic exchange induces a phase with canted spin order, and also a spin-singlet phase.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Das Sarma , Subir Sachdev , Lian Zheng

We present a phase diagram for a two-dimensional electron system with two populated subbands. Using a gated GaAs/AlGaAs single quantum well, we have mapped out the phases of various quantum Hall states in the density-magnetic filed plane.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. Y. Lee , H. W. Jiang , W. J. Schaff

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

Using a tilted field geometry, the effect of an in-plane magnetic field on the even denominator nu = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state is studied. The energy gap of the nu = 5/2 state is found to collapse linearly with the in-plane magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 C. R. Dean , B. A. Piot , P. Hayden , S. Das Sarma , G. Gervais , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We present a new theoretical approach for the integer quantum Hall effect, which is able to describe the inter-plateau transitions as well as the transition to the Hall insulator. We find two regimes (metallic and insulator like) of the top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Oswald , G. Span , F. Kuchar