The quantum Hall effect: novel excitations and broken symmetries

SM Girvin - Aspects topologiques de la physique en basse …, 2002 - Springer
Abstract The Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) is one of the most remarkable condensed-matter
phenomena discovered in the second half of the 20 th century. It rivals superconductivity in …

Collective modes and skyrmion excitations in graphene quantum Hall ferromagnets

K Yang, S Das Sarma, AH MacDonald - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2006 - APS
Graphene exhibits quantum Hall ferromagnetism in which an approximate SU (4) symmetry
involving spin and valley degrees of freedom is spontaneously broken. We construct a set of …

Solids of quantum Hall skyrmions in graphene

H Zhou, H Polshyn, T Taniguchi, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Partially filled Landau levels host competing electronic orders. For example, electron solids
may prevail close to integer filling of the Landau levels before giving way to fractional …

Nuclear spin diffusion in the central spin system of a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot

P Millington-Hotze, S Manna, SF Covre da Silva… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The spin diffusion concept provides a classical description of a purely quantum-mechanical
evolution in inhomogeneously polarized many-body systems such as nuclear spin lattices …

Pseudospin anisotropy classification of quantum Hall ferromagnets

T Jungwirth, AH MacDonald - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
Broken-symmetry ground states with uniform electron density are common in quantum Hall
systems when two Landau levels simultaneously approach the chemical potential at integer …

Electron spin transitions in quantum Hall systems

T Chakraborty - Advances in Physics, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
A system of two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field exhibits a remarkable
phenomenon known as the fractional quantum Hall effect. Rapid advances in experimental …

Resistively detected nuclear magnetic resonance in the quantum Hall regime: possible evidence for a Skyrme crystal

W Desrat, DK Maude, M Potemski, JC Portal… - Physical review …, 2002 - APS
Resistively detected nuclear magnetic resonance measurements have been performed on a
high mobility heterostructure in the quantum Hall regime. At millikelvin temperatures the …

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and quantum Hall effect in graphene

K Yang - Solid State Communications, 2007 - Elsevier
In this article we briefly review recent experimental and theoretical work on quantum Hall
effect in graphene, and argue that some of the quantum Hall states exhibit spontaneous …

Strongly coupled magneto-exciton condensates in large-angle twisted double bilayer graphene

Q Li, Y Chen, LN Wei, H Chen, Y Huang, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Excitons, pairs of electrons and holes, undergo a Bose-Einstein condensation at low
temperatures. An important platform to study excitons is double-layer two-dimensional …

Evidence for skyrmion crystallization from NMR relaxation experiments

G Gervais, HL Stormer, DC Tsui, PL Kuhns… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
A resistively detected NMR technique was used to probe the two-dimensional electron gas
in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well. The spin-lattice relaxation rate (1/T 1) was extracted at near …