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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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. -T. Liang , M. Y. Simmons , D. A. Ritchie , M. Pepper

We study transport in a smooth random magnetic field, with emphasis on composite fermions (CF) near half-filling of the Landau level. When either the amplitude of the magnetic field fluctuations or its mean value $\bar B$ is large enough,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. D. Mirlin , D. G. Polyakov , P. Woelfle

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) become a popular driving source in modern condensed matter physics, but most existing theories simplify them as electric fields and ignore the non-uniform Brillouin zone folding effect. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Zi-Qian Zhou , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Cong Xiao , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Field theories of the composite-fermion (CF) metal model it as a Fermi sea of composite fermions coupled to an emergent gauge field. Within a random phase approximation, these theories predict that the Landau damping of the gauge field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-27 Amogh Anakru , Mytraya Gattu , Ajit C. Balram , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Prashant Kumar , Zhen Bi , J. K. Jain

Motivated by the observation of even denominator fractional quantum Hall effect in the $n=3$ Landau level of monolayer graphene [Y. Kim $\textit{et al.}$, Nature Physics $\textbf{15}$, 154 (2019)], we consider a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-05 Anirban Sharma , Songyang Pu , Ajit C. Balram , Jainendra K. Jain

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in two-dimensional electron system (2DES) is an exotic, superfluid-like matter with an emergent topological order. From the consideration of Aharonov-Bohm interaction of electrons and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 W. Pan , W. Kang , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. C. Tsui

Spin-wave excitation mode from the spin-polarized ground state in the fractional quantum Hall liquid with odd fractions ($\nu=1/3,1/5$) numerically obtained by the exact diagonalization of finite systems is shown to be accurately described,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Nakajima , H. Aoki

A recently developed model of interacting composite fermions, is used to investigate different composite-fermion phases. Their interaction potential allows for the formation of both solid and new quantum-liquid phases, which are interpreted…

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

The effective interaction between composite fermions, set entirely by the Coulomb potential and the underlying electronic Landau level orbitals, can stabilize exotic fractional quantum Hall states. In particular, half-filled Landau levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Ravi Kumar , Tomer Firon , André Haug , Misha Yutushui , Alon Ner Gaon , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , David F. Mross , Yuval Ronen

We investigate the propagation of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in a layered half-space system comprising a continuous, sub-wavelength-thick layer weakly adhering to a substrate. Using finite element simulations, we demonstrate that this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Martin Robin , Thomas Dehoux , Maroun Abi Ghanem

We demonstrate that formulating the composite-fermion theory of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in terms of quaternions greatly expands its reach and opens the door into many interesting issues that were previously beyond the reach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-30 Mytraya Gattu , J. K. Jain

In this paper we study fractional quantum Hall composite fermion wavefunctions at filling fractions \nu = 2/3, 3/5, and 4/7. At each of these filling fractions, there are several possible wavefunctions with different spin polarizations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Simon C. Davenport , Steven H. Simon

A conceptual difficulty in formulating the density functional theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect is that while in the standard approach the Kohn-Sham orbitals are either fully occupied or unoccupied, the physics of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 Jianyun Zhao , Manisha Thakurathi , Manish Jain , Diptiman Sen , J. K. Jain

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

We study the role of anisotropy on the transport properties of composite fermions near Landau level filling factor $\nu=1/2$ in two-dimensional holes confined to a GaAs quantum well. By applying a parallel magnetic field, we tune the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 M. A. Mueed , D. Kamburov , S. Hasdemir , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

Shot noise in the half-filled Landau level is studied within the composite-fermion picture, focusing on the diffusive regime. The composite fermions are assumed to form a Fermi liquid with nontrivial Fermi-liquid parameters. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Felix von Oppen

A quantum statistical theory is developed for a fractional quantum Hall effects in terms of composite bosons (fermions) each of which contains a conduction electron and an odd (even) number of fluxons. The cause of the QHE is by assumption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Shigeji Fujita , Akira Suzuki , H. C. Ho

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

We propose a theory for the new effects recently observed by Willett et al [1] in the magnetoresistance of a weakly modulated two dimensional electron gas near filling factor 1/2. Minima in transverse magnetoresistance and maxima in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nataliya A. Zimbovskaya , Joseph L. Birman

We examine theoretically the effects caused by a periodic external potential on the correlated motion of a two-dimensional electron system under strong magnetic fields corresponding to a filling factor 1/2. To describe the resulting complex…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Sakhi