Abstract
Mixing of Landau levels has been understood to be essential in governing the nature of the ground state for the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effect. The incompressibility of the ground state at filling factor in the strong Landau-level-mixed systems, such as the ZnO quantum well, is not always stable. Here we present an approach to generally deal with this kind of system and satisfactorily explain the recent experiments [Falson et al., Sci. Adv. 4, eaat8742 (2018)] by implementing the screening plus the thickness effect. Further, the phase diagrams of the incompressibility of the ground state indicate that the phase transitions can be explicitly extracted by observing the lowest gap of the collective modes when the magnetic field and the width of the quantum well are tuned. We also predict the incompressibility of the two-dimensional electron gas in higher Landau levels in another strong Landau-level-mixed system, viz., the black phosphorene, by considering the screening effect where the relevant even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effects can possibly be observed.
- Received 13 August 2021
- Accepted 29 September 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L161302
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