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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…
We consider both disorder and interaction effects on the magnetoresistance and Hall constant of composite fermions in the vicinity of half filled Landau level. By contrast to the standard case of Coulomb interacting two-dimensional electron…
Despite the fact that composite fermions may be regarded as electrically neutral objects at Landua-level filling factor $\nu=1/2$, carrying only an electric dipole moment, we argue that the long-wavelength compressibility of the system is…
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…
We consider the Hall conductivity of composite fermions in the theory of Halperin, Lee, and Read (HLR). We present a fully quantum mechanical numerical calculation that shows, under suitable conditions, the HLR theory exhibits a…
The 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect in the second Landau level of extremely clean two-dimensional electron gases has attracted much attention due to its topological order predicted to host quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian quantum…
The Fermionic Chern-Simons approach has had remarkable success in the description of quantum Hall states at even denominator filling fractions $\nu=\frac{1}{2m}$. In this paper we review a number of recent works concerned with modeling this…
We consider the Coulomb drag between two layers of two-dimensional electronic gases subject to a strong magnetic field. We first focus on the case in which the electronic density is such that the Landau level filling fraction $\nu$ in each…
We report the results of two fundamental transport measurements at a Landau level filling factor $\nu$ of 1/2. The well known ballistic electron transport phenomena of quenching of the Hall effect in a mesoscopic cross-junction and negative…
Particle-hole symmetry in the lowest Landau level of the two-dimensional electron gas requires the electrical Hall conductivity to equal $\pm e^2/2h$ at half-filling. We study the consequences of weakly broken particle-hole symmetry for…
We have studied the magnetotransport near Landau level filling factor $\nu = 1/2$ in a GaAs-Al0.3Ga0.7As square quantum well (width 35 nm) in magnetic field up to 42 T and in a temperature range between 50 mK and 1.5 K. In low temperatures…
We study temperature dependence of diagonal conductivity at half filled Landau level by means of the theory of composite fermions in the weakly disordered regime $(k_{F}l>>1)$. At low temperatures we find the leading $\log T$ correction…
We derive exact physical consequences of particle-hole symmetry of the $\nu=1/2$ state of electrons in a strong magnetic field. We show that if the symmetry is not spontaneously broken, the Hall conductivity and the susceptibility satisfy…
We develop a phenomenological description of the nu=5/2 quantum Hall state in which the Halperin-Lee-Read theory of the half-filled Landau level is combined with a p-wave pairing interaction between composite fermions (CFs). The…
We present the first experimental study of the carrier density dependence of the composite fermion conductivity $\sigma^{CF}_{xx}$ at Landau level filling factors $\nu= {1/2}$ and $\nu= {3/2}$ in high-quality front-gated…
We have studied temperature dependence of both diagonal and Hall resistivity in the vicinity of $\nu=1/2$. Magnetoresistance was found to be positive and almost independent of temperature: temperature enters resistivity as a logarithmic…
We have studied the temperature dependence of diagonal conductivity in high-mobility two-dimensional samples at filling factors $\nu=1/2$ and 3/2 at low temperatures. We observe a logarithmic dependence on temperature, from our lowest…
We present a mean field theory of composite fermion edge channel transport in the fractional and integer quantum Hall regimes. An expression relating the electro-chemical potentials of composite fermions at the edges of a sample to those of…
We consider the conductivity tensor for composite fermions in a close to half-filled Landau band in the temperature regime where the scattering off the potential and the trapped gauge field of random impurities dominates. The Boltzmann…
We consider a half-filled Chern band and its transport properties in two phases that it may form, the electronic Fermi liquid and the composite-fermion Fermi liquid. For weak disorder, we show that the Hall resistivity for the former phase…