Quantized Transport of Disordered Superconducting Fractional Quantum Hall Edge (I): the ν=2/3 Case Study
Oral-In-person
Abstract
Quantum Hall edge states in proximity to a superconductor (SC) usually acquire a non-quantized electron-to-hole conversion probability in transport, due to non-universal SC couplings and disorders. With counter-propagating modes, we show that the situation can be the opposite in the filling ν=2/3 fractional quantum Hall (FQH) edge states with SC proximity, where disordered SC-couplings can reconstruct the edge states into an infinite set of stable phases with quantized electron-to-hole conversion probability along a long edge. Each phase is dominated by a disordered SC-coupling that tunnels ±|qN| Cooper pairs, which can take values |qN|=1,4,15, etc. We predict that this gives rise to a quantized downstream resistance Rd=h/[2(qNe)2] in an FQH-SC junction, serving as a quantized electrical transport signature beyond the Hall conductance. Higher-order nonlinear transport due to irrelevant Cooper pair tunneling or vortex dissipation is further studied, which becomes dominant when the edge is in a normal phase. Our results apply to both the single-layer state (as a particle-hole conjugate of ν=1/3) and the bilayer Halperin-(112) state, revealing a rich landscape of disorder-stabilized phases in FQH edge states with SC proximity, and may as well apply to fractional Chern insulators recently observed at the same filling.
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Publication: arXiv:2505.20398
Presenters
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Pok Man Tam
- Princeton University