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INR 1000yesIIT Guwahati (IITG)

The fees for the course Quantum Hall Effects is :

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Exam feesRs. 1,000

The Syllabus

  • Transport in mesoscopic systems
  • Historical introduction of Hall effect
  • Classical Hall effect
  • Discovery of Quantum Hall Effect (QHE)
  • Two dimensional electron gases (2 DEG)
  • Band diagrams

  • Hall Resistivity and Conductivity
  • Resistivity measurements
  • QHE and Metrology, quantization of resistivity, experimental plot of quantized resistivity
  • Hall and longitudinal resistivity, plateaus, Integer QHE (IQHE)

  • 2DEG in strong magnetic field
  • Solution of Schroedinger equation
  • Gauge invariance, Landau gauge
  • Landau levels degeneracy, quantum of flux
  • Shubnikov de Haas (SdH) oscillations

  • Laughlin’s argument
  • Corbino ring, Origin of the plateaux, effect of electric field, inclusion of spins of electrons
  • Role of disorder, edge states, topological insulator

  • Hall conductivity
  • Linear response theory, derivation of Kubo formula, choice of gauge potentials
  • Hall conductivity and Chern number

  • Topological considerations
  • Gauss-Bonnet theorem
  • Berry connection and Berry curvature
  • IQHE revisited in Graphene and 2D Dirac materials, quantization of the plateaus
  • Graphene nanoribbon.

  • Fractional Quantum Hall effect (FQHE)
  • QHE at non-integer filling fractions
  • Role of Coulomb interactions, Laughlin wave function
  • Symmetric gauge, 
  • Lowest Landau level, 
  • Fractional Statistics, Fractional charge, Anyons, Braiding statistics

  • Spin Hall effect
  • Spin Orbit coupling
  • Spin Hall effect, application to spintronics, real materials
  • HgTe-CdTe quantum wells

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