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Chin. Phys. B, 2026, Vol. 35(3): 037302    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ae3304
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Non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall states at filling factor 3/4

Kai-Wen Huang(黄楷文) and Ying-Hai Wu(吴英海)†
School of Physics and Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Abstract  Fractional quantum Hall states have been observed at filling factor $\nu=3/4$ in GaAs hole system and bilayer graphene. In theoretical bootstrap analysis, it was revealed that non-Abelian topological orders with Ising anyons can be realized at $\nu=3/4$, which exhibit $12$ fold ground state degeneracy on the torus. The properties of $\nu=3/4$ states can be analyzed using two complementary approaches. In the first one, they are treated as particle-hole conjugate of $\nu=1/4$ Moore-Read types states. In the second one, they are mapped to composite fermions with reverse flux attachment at effective filling factor $3/2$, whose integral part realizes an integer quantum Hall state and the fractional part realizes $\nu=1/2$ Moore-Read type states. For bilayer graphene with appropriate Landau level mixing, numerical calculations have found $12$ quasi-degenerate ground states on the torus at $\nu=3/4$. Chiral graviton spectral functions of these states have one low energy peak with negative chirality and one high energy peak with positive chirality. This points to a specific member of the Moore-Read type states and agrees with the deduction based on daughter states.
Keywords:  fractional quantum Hall effect      non-Abelian anyon      bilayer graphene      topological order  
Received:  21 October 2025      Revised:  30 December 2025      Accepted manuscript online:  04 January 2026
PACS:  73.43.-f (Quantum Hall effects)  
  71.10.Pm (Fermions in reduced dimensions (anyons, composite fermions, Luttinger liquid, etc.))  
  72.80.Vp (Electronic transport in graphene)  
  03.65.Vf (Phases: geometric; dynamic or topological)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12174130).
Corresponding Authors:  Ying-Hai Wu     E-mail:  yinghaiwu88@hust.edu.cn

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Kai-Wen Huang(黄楷文) and Ying-Hai Wu(吴英海)† Non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall states at filling factor 3/4 2026 Chin. Phys. B 35 037302

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