Molecular beam epitaxy of ultra-high-quality AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures: Enabling physics in low-dimensional electronic systems

MJ Manfra - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2014 - annualreviews.org
Among very-low-disorder systems of condensed matter, the high-mobility two-dimensional
electron gas (2DEG) confined in aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs)–gallium arsenide …

The quantum Hall effect at 5/2 filling factor

RL Willett - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental discovery of a quantized Hall state at 5/2 filling factor presented an enigmatic
finding in an established field of study that has remained an open issue for more than twenty …

Phase Diagram of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Effects of Landau-Level Mixing and Nonzero Width

K Pakrouski, MR Peterson, T Jolicoeur, VW Scarola… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Interesting non-Abelian states, eg, the Moore-Read Pfaffian and the anti-Pfaffian, offer
candidate descriptions of the ν= 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state. But, the significant …

Observation of a transition from a topologically ordered to a spontaneously broken symmetry phase

N Samkharadze, KA Schreiber, GC Gardner… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Until the late 1980s, phases of matter were understood in terms of Landau's symmetry-
breaking theory. Following the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, the introduction of a …

Modified MBE hardware and techniques and role of gallium purity for attainment of two dimensional electron gas mobility> 35× 106 cm2/V s in AlGaAs/GaAs quantum …

GC Gardner, S Fallahi, JD Watson, MJ Manfra - Journal of Crystal Growth, 2016 - Elsevier
We provide evidence that gallium purity is the primary impediment to attainment of ultra-high
mobility in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures grown …

Recent experimental progress of fractional quantum Hall effect: 5/2 filling state and graphene

X Lin, R Du, X **e - National Science Review, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The phenomenon of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) was first experimentally observed
33 years ago. FQHE involves strong Coulomb interactions and correlations among the …

Mobility and quantum mobility of modern GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures

M Sammon, MA Zudov, BI Shklovskii - Physical Review Materials, 2018 - APS
In modern GaAs/Al x Ga 1− x As heterostructures with record high mobilities, a two-
dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a quantum well is provided by two remote donor δ …

Collective nature of the reentrant integer quantum Hall states in the second Landau level

N Deng, A Kumar, MJ Manfra, LN Pfeiffer, KW West… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We report an unexpected sharp peak in the temperature dependence of the
magnetoresistance of the reentrant integer quantum Hall states in the second Landau level …

Fractional quantum Hall effect at Landau level filling

W Pan, KW Baldwin, KW West, LN Pfeiffer, DC Tsui - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We report low-temperature electronic transport results on the fractional quantum Hall effect
of composite fermions at Landau level filling ν= 4/11 in a very high mobility and low density …

Abelian and non-Abelian states in bilayer fractional quantum Hall systems

MR Peterson, YL Wu, M Cheng, M Barkeshli, Z Wang… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
There are several possible theoretically allowed non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall (FQH)
states that could potentially be realized in one-and two-component FQH systems at total …