Anomalous transport gaps of fractional quantum Hall phases in graphene Landau levels are induced by spin-valley entangled ground states
We evaluate the transport gaps in the most prominent fractional quantum Hall states in the $n=0$ and $n=1$ Landau levels of graphene, accounting for the Coulomb interaction, lattice-scale anisotropies, and one-body terms. We find that the fractional phases in the $n=0$ Landau level are bond ordered, while those in the $n=1$ Landau level are spin-valley entangled. This resolves a long-standing experimental puzzle [F. Amet et al., Nat. Commun. 6, 5838 (2015)] of the contrasting Zeeman dependence of the transport gaps in the two Landau levels. The spin-valley entangled phases host gapless Goldstone modes that can be probed via bulk thermal transport measurements. As a byproduct of our computations, we place strong constraints on the values of the microscopic anisotropic couplings such that these are consistent with all known experimental results.
Authors
- Udit Khanna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3664-4305)
- Ajit C. Balram (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8087-6015)
- Ganpathy Murthy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8047-6241)
- Jincheng An (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6607-5993)
Institutions
- Physical Research Laboratory (IN)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Homi Bhabha National Institute (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. B./Physical review. B
- Published
- 2025-09-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/rth3-mkpl
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.25