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Using a mapping of a layered three-dimensional system with significant inter-layer tunneling onto a spin-Hamiltonian, the phase diagram in the strong magnetic field limit is obtained in the semi-classical approximation. This phase diagram,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yigal Meir

Effect of interlayer tunneling in the double-layer fractional quantum Hall system at the total Landau level filling of $\nu=1/m$ ($m$: odd integer) is analyzed with the composite-fermion approach in which the flux attachment is directly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Nakajima , H. Aoki

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) occurs at certain magnetic field strengths B*(n) in a two-dimensional electron gas of density n at strong magnetic fields perpendicular to the plane of the electron gas. At these magnetic fields…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Heinonen , M. I. Lubin , M. D. Johnson

Evidence for developing fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at filling fraction $\nu{=}1/6$ and $1/8$ has recently been reported in wide GaAs quantum wells [Wang \emph{et al.}, PRL {\bf 134}, 046502 (2025)]. In this article, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ajit C. Balram , Anirban Sharma , J. K. Jain

We consider Coulomb drag between two layers of two-dimensional electron gases subject to a strong magnetic field, with the Landau level filling factor in each layer being 1/2. We find $\rho_D$ to be very large, as compared to the zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ady Stern , Iddo Ussishkin

We report the evolution of the fractional quantum Hall state (FQHS) at even-denominator filling factor $\nu=7/2$ in wide GaAs quantum wells in which electrons occupy two electric subbands. The data reveal subtle and distinct evolutions as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Yang Liu , J. Shabani , D. Kamburov , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

The integer quantum Hall effect features a paradigmatic quantum phase transition. Despite decades of work, experimental, numerical, and analytical studies have yet to agree on a unified understanding of the critical behavior. Based on a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-30 Martin Puschmann , Philipp Cain , Michael Schreiber , Thomas Vojta

We theoretically examine entanglement in fractional quantum hall states, explicitly taking into account and emphasizing the quasi-two-dimensional nature of experimental quantum Hall systems. In particular, we study the entanglement entropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-07 J. Biddle , Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma

We report an experimental study of the quantum corrections to the longitudinal conductivity and the Hall coefficient of a low mobility, high density two-dimensional two-dimensional electron gas in a AlGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well in a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Vincent Thomas Francois Renard , O. A. Tkachenko , Ze Don Kvon , E. B. Olshanetsky , A. I. Toropov , J. C Portal

Quantized Hall conductance is a generic feature of two dimensional electronic systems with broken time reversal symmetry. In the quantum anomalous Hall state recently discovered in magnetic topological insulators, time reversal symmetry is…

Quantum wells constitute one of the most important classes of devices in the study of 2D systems. In a double layer QW, the additional "which-layer" degree of freedom gives rise to celebrated phenomena such as Coulomb drag, Hall drag and…

We report the observation of an even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state at $\nu=1/4$ in a high quality, wide GaAs quantum well. The sample has a quantum well width of 50 nm and an electron density of $n_e=2.55\times10^{11}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. R. Luhman , W. Pan , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

The collective charge-excitation spectrum of a double quantum well system in a strong magnetic field is obtained within the random phase approximation. Correction to the spectrum coming from the finiteness of the magnetic field is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Osamu Narikiyo , Daijiro Yoshioka

The transport properties of the two-dimensional system in HgTe-based quantum wells containing simultaneously electrons and holes of low densities are examined. The Hall resistance, as a function of perpendicular magnetic field, reveals an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 O. E. Raichev , G. M. Gusev , E. B. Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , J. C. Portal

A scanning probe technique was used to obtain a high-resolution map of the random electrostatic potential inside the quantum Hall liquid. A sharp metal tip, scanned above a semiconductor surface, sensed charges in an embedded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Finkelstein , P. I. Glicofridis , R. C. Ashoori , M. Shayegan

We discuss the orbital effect of a tilted magnetic field on the quantum Hall effect in parabolic quantum wells. Many-body states realized at the fractional 1/3 and 1/2 filling of the second electronic subband are studied using finite-size…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Z. Papic

Spectroscopy of discrete Landau levels (LLs) in bulk-insulating three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) in perpendicular magnetic field characterizes the Dirac nature of their surface states. Despite a number of studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Su Kong Chong , Ryuichi Tsuchikawa , Jared Harmer , Taylor D. Sparks , Vikram V. Deshpande

The physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect is the physics of interacting electrons confined to a macroscopically degenerate Landau level. In this Chapter we discuss the theory of the quantum Hall effect in systems where the electrons…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Girvin , A. H. MacDonald

The plateau-to-plateau transition in quantum Hall effect under high magnetic fields is a celebrated quantum phase transition between two topological states through either sweeping the magnetic field or tuning the carrier density. The recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Ruobing Mei , Zi-Jie Yan , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

We review the theoretical basis and understanding of electronic interactions in graphene Landau levels, in the limit of strong correlations. This limit occurs when inter-Landau-level excitations may be omitted because they belong to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault