English
Related papers

Related papers: Skyrmions in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

200 papers

We report low temperature electronic transport results on the fractional quantum Hall effect of composite fermions at Landau level filling nu = 4/11 in a very high mobility and low density sample. Measurements were carried out at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 W. Pan , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. C. Tsui

We present a microscopic theory of skyrmion and antiskyrmion excitations in fractional quantum Hall systems, and calculate in an analytical fashion their excitation energies. From the calculated net spins at various fractional filling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kang-Hun Ahn , K. J. Chang

The energy gaps for the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling fractions 1/3, 1/5, and 1/7 have been calculated by variational Monte Carlo using Jain's composite fermion wave functions before and after projection onto the lowest Landau…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. E. Bonesteel

A set of scalar operators are employed to generate explicit representations of both hierarchy states (e.g., the series of fillings 1/3, 2/5, 3/7, ... ) and their conjugates (fillings 1, 2/3, 3/5, ...) as non-interacting quasi-electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-27 W. C. Haxton , Daniel J. Haxton

The low-energy excitations of filled Landau levels (LL's) of electrons involve promotion of a single electron from the topmost filled LL to the lowest empty LL. These are called excitons or collective modes. The incompressible fractional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 R. K. Kamilla , X. G. Wu , J. K. Jain

We report the observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect in the lowest Landau level of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES), residing in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Cd(1-x)Mn(x)Te. The presence of magnetic impurities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Betthausen , P. Giudici , A. Iankilevitch , C. Preis , V. Kolkovsky , M. Wiater , G. Karczewski , B. A. Piot , J. Kunc , M. Potemski , T. Wojtowicz , D. Weiss

Motivated by recent experiments that reveal expansive fractional quantum Hall states in the $n=1$ graphene Landau level and suggest a nontrivial role of the spin degree of freedom [Amet {\em et al.}, Nat. Common. {\bf 6}, 5838 (2014)], we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-20 Ajit C. Balram , Csaba Tőke , A. Wójs , J. K. Jain

In the framework of a recently developed model of interacting composite fermions, we calculate the energy of different solid and Laughlin-type liquid phases of spin-polarized composite fermions. The liquid phases have a lower energy than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Goerbig , P. Lederer , C. Morais Smith

Experiments on the fractional quantized Hall effect in the zeroth Landau level of graphene have revealed some striking differences between filling factors in the ranges 0<|\nu|<1 and 1<|\nu|<2. We argue that these differences can be largely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Dmitry A. Abanin , Benjamin E. Feldman , Amir Yacoby , Bertrand I. Halperin

Almost all quantum Hall effect to date can be understood as {\em integral} quantum Hall effect of appropriate particles, namely electrons or composite fermions. This paper investigates theoretically the feasibility of nested states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sudhansu S. Mandal , Jainendra K. Jain

Phonon excitations of fractional quantum Hall states at filling factors nu = 1/3, 2/5, 4/7, 3/5, 4/3, and 5/3 are experimentally shown to be based on Landau level transitions of Composite Fermions. At filling factor nu = 2/3, however, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Schulze-Wischeler , F. Hohls , U. Zeitler , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , R. J. Haug

The dependence of the activated gap on magnetic field is studied for the fractional filling factor~1/3. By comparing the experimental results with results from exact diagonalization calculations we are able to identify the excitation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. F. Dethlefsen , R. J. Haug , K. Vyborny , O. Certik , A. Wojs

We present a theory of composite fermion edge states and their transport properties in the fractional and integer quantum Hall regimes. We show that the effective electro-chemical potentials of composite fermions at the edges of a Hall bar…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 George Kirczenow , Brad L. Johnson

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

The pair distribution function and the static structure factor are computed for composite fermions. Clear and robust evidence for a $2k_F$ structure is seen in a range of filling factors in the vicinity of the half-filled Landau level.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. K. Kamilla , J. K. Jain , S. M. Girvin

Following recent work of Halperin, Lee, and Read, and Kalmeyer and Zhang, a double-layer electron system with total Landau-level filling factor $\nu=1/2$ is mapped onto an equivalent system of fermions in zero average magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. E. Bonesteel

The eigenstates of interacting electrons in the fractional quantum Hall phase typically form fairly well defined bands in the energy space. We show that the composite fermion theory gives insight into the origin of these bands and provides…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Dev , J. K. Jain

Charged excitons of composite fermions (CFs) are considered in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Energies of the charged CF excitons are computed at $\nu=1/3$ as a function of the size of exciton. We show that the charged CF exciton with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kwon Park

The model of Composite Fermions for describing interacting electrons in two dimensions in the presence of a magnetic field is described. In this model, charged Fermions are combined with an even number of magnetic flux quanta in such a way…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Kramer , N. Magnoli , E. Mariani , M. Merlo , F. Napoli , M. Sassetti

We compare quantum Hall systems at filling factor 2 to those at filling factors 2/3 and 2/5, corresponding to the exact filling of two lowest electron or composite fermion (CF) Landau levels. The two fractional states are examples of CF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Vyborny , O. Certik , D. Pfannkuche , D. Wodzinski , A. Wojs , J. J. Quinn