When an electron with well-defined momentum tunnels into a nonchiral Luttinger liquid, it breaks up into two separate wave packets that carry fractional charges and move in opposite directions. A direct observation of this phenomenon has proven elusive, mainly due to single-particle and plasmon backscattering caused by measurement probes. This paper theoretically introduces two topological insulator devices that are naturally suited for detecting fractional charges and their velocities directly and in a noninvasive fashion.
One remarkable feature of strongly correlated systems is the phenomenon of fractionalization where quasiparticles carry only a fraction of the charge or spin of the elementary constituents. Such quasiparticles often present anyonic statistics in two dimensions and lie at the heart of the fractional quantum Hall effect. We discuss the observation of fractionalization and anyonic statistics already in the integer quantum Hall effect coupled to a metallic island. A continuous fractional emitter is proposed, which sends dilute beams of non-integer charges, and its full counting statistics is obtai…
Fractionalization is a phenomenon where an elementary excitation partitions into several pieces. This picture explains non-trivial transport through a junction of one-dimensional edge channels defined by topologically distinct quantum Hall states, for example, a hole-conjugate state at Landau-level filling factor $ν$ = 2/3. Here we employ a time-resolved scheme to identify an elementary fractionalization process; injection of charge q from a non-interaction region into an interacting and scattering region of one-dimensional channels results in the formation of a collective excitation with char…
Advancing a microscopic framework that rigorously unveils the underlying topological hallmarks of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluids is a prerequisite for making progress in the classification of strongly-coupled topological matter. Here we advance a second-quantization framework that helps reveal an exact fusion mechanism for particle fractionalization in FQH fluids, and uncover the fundamental structure behind the condensation of non-local operators characterizing topological order in the lowest-Landau-level (LLL). We show the first exact analytic computation of the quasielectron Berry con…
Fractional charges in emergent neutral modes at the integer quantum Hall effect
在低维相互作用电子系统中，电荷分裂是一种可能的激发。一个已知的例子是在分数量子霍尔效应（Fractional Hall effect，HHE）机制中的分数电荷，这是电子之间的强库仑相互作用的结果，电子的动能被强磁场淬灭。或者，整数QHE（IQHE），其中电子在朗道能级（LL）中主要表现为独立粒子，缺乏这种分馏。然而，对于填充v=2，3，.电子在共同传播的相邻手性边缘沟道中传播，从而相互作用并改变非相互作用的LL。例如，在v=2时，选择性地注入到单个非相互作用（裸）边缘沟道中的电子预期在相互作用区域中分解成“快”模式和“慢”模式;每个模式携带在两个裸沟道之间共享的部分电荷。在这里，我们报告我们的灵敏的散粒噪声测量，确认存在这样的细分在v=2。注入分区电流到一个“热”边缘通道导致低频散粒噪声在相邻的无电流的“冷”边缘通道后，它已被分区。控制热通道和冷通道的划分允许确定两个通道中的部分电荷以及通道的速度差。这种方法可以很容易地扩展到研究在二维系统的拓扑结构支配边缘通道输运的相互作用。
Fractionalization from Kinetic Frustration in Doped Two-Dimensional SU(4) Quantum Magnets
Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST)（慕尼黑量子科学与技术中心）；Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich（苏黎世联邦理工学院理论物理研究所）
We study the linear thermoelectric response of a quantum dot embedded in a constriction of a quantum Hall bar with fractional filling factors nu=1/m within Laughlin series. We calculate the figure of merit ZT for the maximum efficiency at a fixed temperature difference. We find a significant enhancement of this quantity in the fractional filling in relation to the integer-filling case, which is a direct consequence of the fractionalization of the electron in the fractional quantum Hall state. We present simple theoretical expressions for the Onsager coefficients at low temperatures, which expl…
Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states are examples of symmetry-enriched topological states (SETs): in addition to the intrinsic topological order, which is robust to symmetry breaking, they possess symmetry-protected topological invariants, such as fractional charge of anyons and fractional Hall conductivity. In this paper we develop a comprehensive theory of symmetry-protected topological invariants for FQH states with spatial symmetries, which applies to Abelian and non-Abelian topological states, by using a recently developed framework of $G$-crossed braided tensor categories ($G\times$BTCs)…
The quest to realize novel phases of matter with topological order is an important pursuit with implications for strongly correlated physics and quantum information. Utilizing ideas from state-of-the-art coherent control of artificial quantum systems such as superconducting circuits, we present a proposal to realize bosonic fractional quantum Hall physics on small lattices by creating nearly flat topological bands using staggered flux patterns. Fingerprints of fractionalization through charge pumping can be observed with nearly perfect quantization using as few as 24 lattice sites (two photons…
We study electron transport through a multichannel fractional quantum Hall edge in the presence of both interchannel interaction and random tunneling between channels, with emphasis on the role of contacts. The prime example in our discussion is the edge at filling factor 2/3 with two counterpropagating channels. Having established a general framework to describe contacts to a multichannel edge as thermal reservoirs, we particularly focus on the line-junction model for the contacts and investigate incoherent charge transport for an arbitrary strength of interchannel interaction beneath the con…
Topological quantum states have been proposed and investigated on two-dimensional flat surfaces or lattices with different geometries like the plane, cylinder and torus. Here, we study quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) or Chern insulator (CI) states on two-dimensional singular surfaces (such as conical and helicoid-like surfaces). Such singular geometries can be constructed based on the disk geometry and a defined unit sector with $n$-fold rotational symmetry. The singular geometry induces novel and intriguing features of CI/QAH states, such as in-gap and in-band core states, charge fractionalizati…
In this contribution, we start off from a fully relativistic description of a single electron non-minimally coupled to an external electromagnetic field. Making direct use of the field equation, instead of canonically deriving from the Lagrangian density, the relativistic total angular momentum is attained, where the effect of the relativistic torque due to the external sources is also taken into account. Both the spin density and the orbital angular momentum tensors are identified in the relativistic-covariant approach. Furthermore, the symmetric and gauge invariant energy-momentum tensor is …
Fractionalization is a phenomenon in which strong interactions in a quantum system drive the emergence of excitations with quantum numbers that are absent in the building blocks. Outstanding examples are excitations with charge e/3 in the fractional quantum Hall effect, solitons in one-dimensional conducting polymers and Majorana states in topological superconductors. Fractionalization is also predicted to manifest itself in low-dimensional quantum magnets, such as one-dimensional antiferromagnetic S = 1 chains. The fundamental features of this system are gapped excitations in the bulk and, re…
Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS, UMR7006), Université de Strasbourg（斯特拉斯堡大学超分子科学与工程学院）；Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz（美因茨约翰内斯·古腾堡大学物理研究所）；Department of Physics, Texas AM University（德克萨斯农工大学物理系）；Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems（马克斯·普朗克复杂系统物理研究所）；Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids（马克斯·普朗克固体化学物理研究所）；Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences（捷克科学院物理研究所）；Department of Physics, The State University of New York at Buffalo（纽约州立大学布法罗分校物理系）
We propose a set of schemes to create and probe fractionally charged excitations of a fractional Chern insulator state in an optical lattice. This includes the creation of localized quasiparticles and quasiholes using both static local defects and the dynamical local insertion of synthetic flux quanta. Simulations of repulsively interacting bosons on a finite square lattice with experimentally relevant open boundary conditions show that already a four-particle system exhibits signatures of charge fractionalization in the quantum-Hall-like state at the filling fraction of $1/2$ particle per flu…
