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The low-lying excitations of a quantum Hall state on a disk geometry are edge excitations. Their dynamics is governed by a conformal field theory on the cylinder defined by the disk boundary and the time variable. We give a simple and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Cappelli , G. V. Dunne , C. A. Trugenberger , G. R. Zemba

We report on an effective gauge theory of double-layer quantum Hall systems, that is constructed via bosonization from the response of incompressible states without referring to composite bosons and fermions. It is pointed out that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Shizuya

Starting from a microscopic description of a system of strongly interacting electrons in a strong magnetic field in a finite geometry, we construct the boundary low energy effective theory for a fractional quantum Hall droplet taking into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-13 D. C. Cabra , N. E. Grandi

Unconventional fermions with high degeneracies in three dimensions beyond Weyl and Dirac fermions have sparked tremendous interest in condensed matter physics. Here, we study quantum Hall effects (QHEs) in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Yong Xu , L. -M. Duan

Making use of refermionization techniques, we map the nonlinear chiral Luttinger liquid model of the edge modes of a spatially confined fractional quantum Hall cloud developed in our recent work [Phys. Rev. A 107, 033320 (2023)] onto a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Alberto Nardin , Iacopo Carusotto

We investigate the 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state with one and two quasiparticle excitations. It is shown that the quasiparticle excitations are best described as excited composite fermions occupying higher composite-fermion quasi-Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Gun Sang Jeon , Jainendra K. Jain

Chiral edge states are a hallmark of quantum Hall physics. In electronic systems, they appear as a macroscopic consequence of the cyclotron orbits induced by a magnetic field, which are naturally truncated at the physical boundary of the…

We show that the integer quantum Hall effect systems in plane, sphere or disc, can be formulated in terms of an algebraic unified scheme. This can be achieved by making use of a generalized Weyl--Heisenberg algebra and investigating its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Mohammed Daoud , Ahmed Jellal , Abdellah Oueld Guejdi

We consider quantum Hall states on a space with boundary, focusing on the aspects of the edge physics which are completely determined by the symmetries of the problem. There are four distinct terms of Chern-Simons type that appear in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-30 Andrey Gromov , Kristan Jensen , Alexander G. Abanov

We derive low-energy effective field theories for the quantum anomalous Hall and topological superconducting phases. The quantum Hall phase is realized in terms of free fermions with nonrelativistic dispersion relation, possessing a global…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-07 M. Gomes , Pedro R. S. Gomes , K. Raimundo , Rodrigo Corso B. Santos , A. J. da Silva

We derive an effective topological field theory model of the four dimensional quantum Hall liquid state recently constructed by Zhang and Hu. Using a generalization of the flux attachment transformation, the effective field theory can be…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-14 B. Andrei Bernevig , Chyh-Hong Chern , Jiang-Ping Hu , Nicolaos Toumbas , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The frictionless, directional propagation of particles at the boundary of topological materials is one of the most striking phenomena in transport. These chiral edge modes lie at the heart of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects,…

We report stroboscopic time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) microscopy and spectroscopy revealing the transverse near field of an edge excitation in a $\nu=1/3$ fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state. Time-resolved $y$-$t$ maps reveal an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Yunhyeon Jeong , Akinori Kamiyama , John N. Moore , Takaaki Mano , Ken-ichi Sasaki , Yuuki Sugiyama , Tokiro Numasawa , Masahiro Hotta , Go Yusa

We use the identification of the edge mode of the filling fraction $\nu=1$ quantum Hall phase with a 1+1 dimensional chiral Dirac fermion to construct an analogue model for a chiral fermion in a space-time geometry possessing an event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-22 Michael Stone

We present scanning optical stroboscopic confocal microscopy and spectroscopy measurements wherein three degrees of freedom, namely energy, real-space, and real-time, are resolvable. The edge-state propagation is detected as a temporal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Akinori Kamiyama , Masahiro Matsuura , John N. Moore , Takaaki Mano , Naokazu Shibata , Go Yusa

Quantum Hall universality classes can be classified by $W_{1+\infty}$ symmetry. We show that this symmetry also governs the dynamics of quantum edge excitations. The Hamiltonian of interacting electrons in the fully-filled first Landau…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Cappelli , C. A. Trugenberger , G. R. Zemba

Search for parafermions and Fibonacci anyons, which are excitations obeying non-Abelian statistics, is driven both by the quest for deeper understanding of nature and prospects for universal topological quantum computation. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 J. Liang , G. E. Simion , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller

We study the fractional quantum Hall effect in three dimensional systems consisting of infinitely many stacked two dimensional electron gases placed in transverse magnetic fields. This limit introduces new features into the bulk physics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. D. Naud , Leonid P. Pryadko , S. L. Sondhi

Synthetic ladders realized with one-dimensional alkaline-earth(-like) fermionic gases and subject to a gauge field represent a promising environment for the investigation of quantum Hall physics with ultracold atoms. Using density-matrix…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-17 Simone Barbarino , Luca Taddia , Davide Rossini , Leonardo Mazza , Rosario Fazio

The effective action of (2+1)-dimensional QED with finite fermion density is calculated in a uniform electromagnetic field. It is shown that the integer quantum Hall effect and de Haas-van Alphen like phenomena in condensed matter physics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Dae Kwan Kim , Kwang-Sup Soh