Chiral non-Fermi liquids

2013/10/31 by Shouvik Sur, Sung-Sik Lee
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Electron #Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope #Fermi gas #Fermi liquid theory #Interface (matter) #Molecule #Parity (physics) #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum #Quantum Hall effect #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum mechanics #Quantum oscillations #Superconductivity #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.str-el #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.90.045121

published as Phys. Rev. B 90, 045121 (2014) · 37 pages, 25 figures; v3) Typos fixed

openalex publication_date 2014/07/17 · arxiv created 2014/07/21 · arxiv updated 2014/07/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The authors provide an example of a stable two-dimensional non-Fermi liquid state without time-reversal and parity invariance. It could be realized at an interface of two stacks of quantum Hall layers with opposite chiralities.

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