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We propose a unitary matrix Chern-Simons model representing fractional quantum Hall fluids of finite extent on the cylinder. A mapping between the states of the two systems is established. Standard properties of Laughlin theory, such as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Alexios P. Polychronakos

The construction of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states from the two-dimensional array of quantum wires provides a useful way to control strong interactions in microscopic models and has been successfully applied to the Laughlin,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Y. Fuji , P. Lecheminant

Two-component fractional quantum Hall (2C-FQH) states in electron bilayers have been known for decades, yet their experimental realization remained limited to low-order fractions. Here we report on several families of high-order 2C-FQH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 E. Bell , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , M. A. Zudov

I demonstrate that the wavefunction for a nu = n+ tilde{nu} quantum Hall state with Landau levels 0,1,...,n-1 filled and a filling fraction tilde{nu} quantum Hall state with 0 < tilde{nu} \leq 1 in the nth Landau level can be obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 Parsa Bonderson

We present a novel matrix product representation of the Laughlin and related fractional quantum Hall wavefunctions based on a rigorous version of the correlators of a chiral quantum field theory. This representation enables the quantitative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Severin Schraven , Simone Warzel

We propose a finite Chern-Simons matrix model on the plane as an effective description of fractional quantum Hall fluids of finite extent. The quantization of the inverse filling fraction and of the quasiparticle number is shown to arise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Alexios P. Polychronakos

The single-particle spectral function for an incompressible fractional quantum Hall state in the presence of a scalar short-ranged attractive impurity potential is calculated via exact diagonalization within the spherical geometry. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Kelly R. Patton , Michael R. Geller

The observation of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect in 2D electron gases ushered in investigations of topological phases driven by strong electron correlations. Their remarkable features include fractionalized elementary…

Termination of the fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) and the emergence of Wigner crystal phases at very small Landau level filling factors ($\nu$) have been of continued interest for decades. Recently, in ultra-high-quality, dilute…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-07 Siddharth Kumar Singh , A. Gupta , P. T. Madathil , C. Wang , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , M. Shayegan

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 consider spin-polarized electrons in a single Landau level on a torus. The quantum Hall problem is mapped onto a one-dimensional lattice model with lattice constant $2\pi/L_1$, where $L_1$ is a circumference of the torus (in units of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-09 E. J. Bergholtz , A. Karlhede

Consider a system of $N$ electrons projected onto the lowest Landau level (LLL) with filling factor of the form $n/(2pn\pm1)<1/2$ and $N$ a multiple of $n$. We show that there always exists a two-dimensional symmetric correlation factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 S. B. Mulay , J. J. Quinn , M. A. Shattuck

We consider a non-Abelian candidate state at filling factor $\nu=3/7$ state belonging to the parton family. We find that, in the second Landau level of GaAs (i.e. at filling factor $\nu=2+3/7$), this state is energetically superior to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 W. N. Faugno , J. K. Jain , Ajit C. Balram

The observed fractional quantum Hall (FQH) plateaus follow a recurring hierarchical structure that allows an understanding of complex states based on simpler ones. Condensing the elementary quasiparticles of an Abelian FQH state results in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Misha Yutushui , Maria Hermanns , David F. Mross

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), particularly at half-filling of Landau levels, provides a unique window into topological phases hosting non-Abelian excitations. However, experimental platforms simultaneously offering large energy…

We study an effective Hamiltonian for the standard $\nu=1/3$ fractional quantum Hall system in the thin cylinder regime. We give a complete description of its ground state space in terms of what we call Fragmented Matrix Product States,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Bruno Nachtergaele , Simone Warzel , Amanda Young

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the second Landau level (SLL) likely stabilizes non-Abelian topological orders. Recently, a parton sequence has been proposed to capture many of the fractions observed in the SLL [Ajit C. Balram,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-12 Koyena Bose , Ajit C. Balram

We present a drop model for integer and fractional quantum Hall effects (FQHE). We show that the two-dimensional electron gas breaks up into regions with filling factors {\nu} = 1 and {\nu} = 0 in disk geometry, and the formation of drops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 A. A. Vasilchenko

Two-component fractional quantum Hall systems are providing a major motivation for a large section of the physics community. Here we study two-component fractional quantum Hall systems in the spin-polarized half-filled lowest Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Michael R. Peterson , Z. Papic , S. Das Sarma

We examine the quantum phase diagram of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the lowest two Landau levels in half-filled bilayer structures as a function of tunneling strength and layer separation, i.e., we revisit the lowest Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-06 Michael R. Peterson , S. Das Sarma