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It is demonstrated that all observed fractions at moderate Landau level fillings in the quantum Hall effect can be obtained without recourse to the phenomenological concept of composite fermions. The possibility to have the special…

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Noncommutative geometry governs the physics of quantum Hall (QH) effects. We introduce the Weyl ordering of the second quantized density operator to explore the dynamics of electrons in the lowest Landau level. We analyze QH systems made of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. F. Ezawa , G. Tsitsishvili , K. Hasebe

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is a canonical example of electron-electron interactions producing new ground states in many-body systems. Most FQH studies have focused on the lowest Landau level (LL), whose fractional states are…

Recent systematic measurements of the quantum well width dependence of the excitation gaps of fractional quantum Hall states in high mobility samples [Villegas Rosales {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 127}, 056801 (2021)] open the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Tongzhou Zhao , Koji Kudo , W. N. Faugno , Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain

We study the anomalous quantum Hall effect exhibited by the relativistic particles living on two-sphere S^2 and submitted to a magnetic monopole. We start by establishing a direct connection between the Dirac and Landau operators through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ahmed Jellal

Magnetic fields quench the kinetic energy of two dimensional electrons, confining them to highly degenerate Landau levels. In the absence of disorder, the ground state at partial Landau level filling is determined only by Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 A. A. Zibrov , E. M. Spanton , H. Zhou , C. Kometter , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , A. F. Young

It is demonstrated that all observed fractions at moderate Landau level fillings for the quantum Hall effect can be obtained without recourse to the phenomenological concept of composite fermions. The possibility to have the special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Iordanski

Recent observations of the fractional anomalous quantum Hall effect in moir\'e materials have reignited the interest in fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). The chiral limit in which analytic Landau level-like single-particle states form an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-06 Hui Liu , Kang Yang , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

The quantum Hall effect, which exhibits a number of unusual properties, is studied in a gated 1000-nm-thick HgTe film, nominally a three-dimensional system. A weak zero plateau of Hall resistance, accompanied by a relatively small value of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 M. L. Savchenko , D. A. Kozlov , S. S. Krishtopenko , N. N. Mikhailov , Z. D. Kvon , A. Pimenov , D. Weiss

We complete the first stage of constructing a theory of fields not investigated before; these fields transform according to Lorentz group representations decomposable into an infinite direct sum of finite-dimensional irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. M. Slad

The two-dimensional electron system (2DES) is a unique laboratory for the physics of interacting particles. Application of a large magnetic field produces massively degenerate quantum levels known as Landau levels. Within a Landau level the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 O. E. Dial , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We proposed a theory of quantum anomalous Hall effect in a flat-band ferromagnet on a two-dimensional (2D) decorated lattice with spin-orbit coupling. Free electrons on the lattice have dispersionless flat bands, and the ground state is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

The recent discovery of the 3D quantum Hall effect in $\mathrm{HfTe_5}$ has also revealed puzzling signatures of possible 3D fractionalization. Beyond the first plateau associated with the lowest Landau band, Hall conductivity exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jun-Hong Li , Yi-Yuan Chen , Peng-Lu Zhao , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We report on detailed experimental studies of a high-quality heterojunction insulated-gate field-effect transistor (HIGFET) to probe the particle-hole symmetry (PHS) of the FQHE states about half-filling in the lowest Landau level. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 W. Pan , W. Kang , M. P. Lilly , J. L. Reno , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. C. Tsui

The integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) is usually modeled using Galilean-invariant or rotationally-invariant Landau levels. However, these are not generic symmetries of electrons moving in a crystalline background, even in the low-density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 F. D. M. Haldane , Yu Shen

We address the researchers studying the magneto-transport properties of unconventional systems such as bulk samples and new materials or those working in the soft quantum limit. We have developed a procedure for the analysis of experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timir Datta , Ming Yin , and Michael Bleiweiss

We consider the quantum mechanics of a particle on a noncommutative plane. The case of a charged particle in a magnetic field (the Landau problem) with a harmonic oscillator potential is solved. There is a critical point, where the density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 V. P. Nair , A. P. Polychronakos

We propose a geometric mechanism for fractional quantum Hall states based on impurity-induced correlations within a Landau level. A correlated distribution of ionized impurities partially modifies the Landau-level degeneracy through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 M. A. Hidalgo

Unlike regular electron spin, the pseudospin degeneracy of Fermi points in graphene does not couple directly to magnetic field. Therefore, graphene provides a natural vehicle to observe the integral and fractional quantum Hall physics in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Csaba Toke , Paul E. Lammert , Jainendra K. Jain , Vincent H. Crespi

In Landau levels N > 1, the ground state of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field evolves from a Wigner crystal for small filling of the partially filled Landau level, into a succession of bubble states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 R. Cote , C. Doiron , J. Bourassa , H. A. Fertig