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Recent magnetotransport measurements in low-disorder electron systems confined to GaAs/AlGaAs samples revealed that the $\nu = 1$ integer quantum Hall plateau is broken into three distinct regions. These three regions were associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Haoyun Huang , Waseem Hussain , S. A. Myers , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , G. A. Csáthy

We report on a comparison of four GaAs/AlGaAs-based quantum resistance standards using an original technique adapted from the well-known Wheatstone bridge. This work shows that the quantized Hall resistance at Landau level filling factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Félicien Schopfer , Wilfrid Poirier

We report on our theoretical investigation considering the widths of quantized Hall plateaus (QHPs) depending on the density asymmetry induced by the large current within the out-of-linear response regime. We solve the Schrodinger equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Eksi , O. Kilicoglu , S. Aktas , A. Siddiki

We propose a new formula that extracts the quantum Hall conductance from a single (2+1)D gapped wavefunction. The formula applies to general many-body systems that conserve particle number, and is based on the concept of modular flow: i.e.,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-26 Ruihua Fan , Rahul Sahay , Ashvin Vishwanath

The chiral Luttinger liquid model for the edge dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field is derived from coarse-graining and a lowest Landau level projection procedure at arbitrary filling factors $\nu<1$ --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto D'Agosta , Roberto Raimondi , Giovanni Vignale

In a recent experimental paper [1] a qualitative confirmation of the existence of upstream neutral modes at $\nu = 2/3$ quantum Hall edge was reported. Using the chiral Luttinger liquid theory of quantum Hall edge we develop a quantitative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-13 O. Shtanko , K. Snizhko , V. Cheianov

We derive, from first principles, the complete Luttinger liquid theory of abelian quantum Hall edge states. This theory includes the effects of disorder and Coulomb interactions as well as the coupling to external electromagnetic fields. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Skoric , A. M. M. Pruisken

Can a generic magnetic insulator exhibit a Hall current? The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is one example of an insulating bulk carrying a quantized Hall conductivity and other insulators (with zero Chern number) present zero Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

We study two-dimensional systems with Galilean invariance gapped under magnetic fields. When such quantum Hall systems are coupled with external sources for charge, energy, and momentum currents, they exhibit invariance under the Milne…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Tatsuya Amitani , Yusuke Nishida

The paper introduces a semi-analytical method for calculating the Hall conductivity in the single-band approximations. The method goes beyond the linear response theory and, thus, imposes no limitation on the electric fields magnitude. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrey R. Kolovsky

The search for topologically non-trivial states of matter has become an important goal for condensed matter physics. Recently, a new class of topological insulators has been proposed. These topological insulators have an insulating gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Koenig , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Taylor L. Hughes , Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

It is shown that recent and earlier experiments, which claimed to observe a disagreement with the global phase diagram (GPD) of the quantum Hall effect, do not, in fact, contradict the GPD. Two aspects should be taken into account: (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. S. Murzin

We propose that a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) can be realized in a nanopatterned two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a small in-plane magnetic field and a high carrier density. The Berry curvatures originating from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-25 Yongping Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

Despite the extensive literature on the quantum Hall effect (QHE), a direct derivation of the phenomenological formula $\rho_{xy} = h/e^2\nu$ from first principles has remained elusive. In this work, we revisit the Landau and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Pedro Pereyra

The phase diagram of integer quantum Hall effect is numerically determined in the tight-binding model, which can account for overall features of recently obtained experimental phase diagram. In particular, the quantum Hall plateaus are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. N. Sheng , Z. Y. Weng

In the fractional quantum Hall effect regime we measure diagonal ($\rho_{xx}$) and Hall ($\rho_{xy}$) magnetoresistivity tensor components of two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in gated GaAs/Al$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterojunctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. S. Murzin , S. I. Dorozhkin , G. E. Tsydynzhapov , V. N. Zverev

The low-energy physics of two-dimensional Quantum Anomalous Hall insulators like (Hg,Mn)Te quantum wells or magnetically doped (Bi,Sb)Te thin films can be effectively described by two Chern insulators, including a Dirac, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 C. Tutschku , F. S. Nogueira , C. Northe , J. van den Brink , E. M. Hankiewicz

We study the tunneling current between two counterpropagating edge modes described by chiral Luttinger liquids when the tunneling takes place along an extended region. We compute this current perturbatively by using a tunnel Hamiltonian.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Aranzana , N. Regnault , Th. Jolicoeur

We present a direct numerical evidence for reflection symmetry of longitudinal resistivity $\rho_{xx}$ and quantized Hall resistivity $\rho_{xy}$ near the transition between $\nu=1$ quantum Hall state and insulator, in accord with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. N. Sheng , Z. Y. Weng

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert