Multifractal wavefunctions of charge carriers in graphene with folded deformations, ripples, or uniaxial flexural modes: Analogies to the quantum Hall effect under random pseudomagnetic fields

Author(s):  
Abdiel Espinosa-Champo ◽  
Gerardo G. Naumis
Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 363 (6422) ◽  
pp. 54-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabien Lafont ◽  
Amir Rosenblatt ◽  
Moty Heiblum ◽  
Vladimir Umansky

The quantum Hall effect, observed in a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, imposes a 1D-like chiral, downstream, transport of charge carriers along the sample edges. Although this picture remains valid for electrons and Laughlin’s fractional quasiparticles, it no longer holds for quasiparticles in the so-called hole-conjugate states. These states are expected, when disorder and interactions are weak, to harbor upstream charge modes. However, so far, charge currents were observed to flow exclusively downstream in the quantum Hall regime. Studying the canonical spin-polarized and spin-unpolarized v = 2/3 hole-like states in GaAs-AlGaAs heterostructures, we observed a significant upstream charge current at short propagation distances in the spin unpolarized state.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Moreau ◽  
B. Brun ◽  
S. Somanchi ◽  
K. Watanabe ◽  
T. Taniguchi ◽  
...  

AbstractThe quantum Hall effect is the seminal example of topological protection, as charge carriers are transmitted through one-dimensional edge channels where backscattering is prohibited. Graphene has made its marks as an exceptional platform to reveal new facets of this remarkable property. However, in conventional Hall bar geometries, topological protection of graphene edge channels is found regrettably less robust than in high mobility semi-conductors. Here, we explore graphene quantum Hall regime at the local scale, using a scanning gate microscope. We reveal the detrimental influence of antidots along the graphene edges, mediating backscattering towards upstream edge channels, hence triggering topological breakdown. Combined with simulations, our experimental results provide further insights into graphene quantum Hall channels vulnerability. In turn, this may ease future developments towards precise manipulation of topologically protected edge channels hosted in various types of two-dimensional crystals.


1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 461-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choon-Lin Ho ◽  
Man-Jui Liao

We study the low temperature properties of two-dimensional ideal gases of generalized statistics in a uniform magnetic field. The generalized statistics considered here are the parafermion statistics and the exclusion statistics. Similarity in the behaviors of the parafermion gas of finite order p and the gas with exclusion coefficient g=1/p at very low temperatures is noted. These two systems become exactly equivalent at T=0. Quantum Hall effect with these particles as charge carriers is briefly discussed.


1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 4006-4009 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. B. Goldberg ◽  
D. Heiman ◽  
M. Dahl ◽  
A. Pinczuk ◽  
L. Pfeiffer ◽  
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1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 523-526
Author(s):  
M.V Budantsev ◽  
Z.D Kvon ◽  
A.G Pogosov ◽  
E.B Olshanetskii ◽  
D.K Maude ◽  
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