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89.
F. Alet, T. Chen, A. Feiguin, E. Gull, S. Iskakov, J. P. F. LeBlanc, F. Lin, A. Mirmira, G. Möller, L. Pollet, M. Rosales, V. W. Scarola, H. Shinaoka, H. Terletska, S. Todo, M. Troyer, M. Wallerberger, P. Werner, T. M. R. Wolf, The ALPS project release 3.0: open source software for strongly correlated systems (2026).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2610.03884 ]

88.
Ryan Scott, V. W. Scarola, Strong-Drive Floquet Engineering of Interacting Qudits: From Finite-Duration Controls to Emergent Symmetry (2026).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2609.04309 ]

87.
Byungmin Kang, Hyunwoong Kwon, Vito W. Scarola, Kwon Park, Scalable Quantum Algorithms for Gutzwiller Projection (2026).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2606.06919 ]

86.
Binayyak Roy, Vito Scarola, Sumanta Tewari, Floquet-Engineered Parity Anomaly Staircase in a Cold Atom Dirac Lattice (2026).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2606.05164 ]

85.
V. W. Scarola, Scalable Measurement-Based Quantum Simulation Patterns for Benchmarking (2026).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2605.12502 ]

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Hrushikesh Sable, Subrata Das, V. W. Scarola, Quantum Hall correlations in tilted extended Bose-Hubbard chains Physical Review A 113, L011304 (2026).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2510.27685 ] [DOI]

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Phil Russ, Mi Yan, Nicholas Kowalski, Laura Wadleigh, V. W. Scarola, Brian DeMarco, Compressibility measurement of the thermal MI--BG transition in an optical lattice (2025).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2506.16466 ]

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Ryan Scott, Bryce Gadway, V. W. Scarola, Generalized Pulse Design in Floquet Engineering: Application to Interacting Spin Systems Physical Review A 112, 063314 (2025).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2504.20154 ] [DOI]

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Zhangjie Qin, V.W. Scarola, Scaling of Computational Order Parameters in Rydberg Atom Graph States Physical Review A 111,042617 (2025).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2409.05941 ] [DOI]

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T. D. Stanescu, Sumanta Tewari, V. W. Scarola, Topological superfluid phases of attractive Fermi-Hubbard model in narrow-band cold-atom optical lattices Physical Review A 112,053307 (2025).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2408.16210 ] [DOI]

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Subrata Das, Vito W. Scarola, Unveiling Supersolid Order via Vortex Trajectory Correlations Physical Review Letters 134,163401 (2025).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2407.02481 ] [DOI]

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Hrushikesh Sable, Nathan M. Myers, V. W. Scarola, Toward Quantum Analogue Simulation of Many-Body Supersymmetry with Rydberg Atom Arrays Physical Review Letters 135, 033401 (2025).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2405.21073 ] [DOI]

77.
Woo-Ram Lee, Nathan M. Myers, V. W. Scarola, Noise-resilient and resource-efficient hybrid algorithm for robust quantum gap estimation. Physical Review A 111,022421 (2025).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2405.10306 ] [DOI]

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Nathan M. Myers, Hrushikesh Sable, V. W. Scarola, Unifying Collisional Models and the Monte Carlo Metropolis Method: Algorithms for Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems Physical Review E 111,014115 (2025).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2403.00197 ] [DOI]

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Zhangjie Qin, Daniel Azses, Eran Sela, Robert Raussendorf, V. W. Scarola, Redundant string symmetry-based error correction: Demonstrations on quantum devices . Physical Review A 110,012465 (2024).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2310.12854 ] [DOI]

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Svetlana Kotochigova, Qingze Guan, Vito Scarola, Brian DeMarco, Bryce Gadway, Rotational magic conditions for ultracold molecules in the presence of Raman and Rayleigh scattering New Journal of Physics 26,063025 (2024).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2310.16215 ] [DOI]

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Nathan M. Myers, Ryan Scott, Kwon Park, V. W. Scarola, Quantum simulation costs for Suzuki-Trotter decomposition of quantum many-body lattice models Physical Review Research 5,023199 (2023).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2302.04698 ] [DOI]

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W.-R. Lee, R. Scott, and V. W. Scarola, Hybrid quantum gap estimation algorithm using a filtered time series Physical Review A 109, 052403 (2024).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2212.14039 ] [DOI]

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K. K. W. Ma, M. R. Peterson, V. W. Scarola, and K. Yang, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect at the Filling Factor ν = 5/2 Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd ed. Vol. 1 pp. 324-365 (2024)
[pdf] [ arXiv:2208.07908 ] [DOI]

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W.-R. Lee, Z. Qin, R. Raussendorf, E. Sela, and V. W. Scarola, Measurement-Based Time Evolution for Quantum Simulation of Fermionic Systems, Physical Review Research 4, L032013 (2022).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2110.14642 ] [DOI]

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J. Zhang, S. Tewari, and V. W. Scarola, Stabilizing Topological Superfluidity of Lattice Fermions, Physical Review A 104, 033322 (2021).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2106.04583 ] [DOI]

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Z. Qin, W.-R. Lee, B. DeMarco, B. Gadway, S. Kotochigova, and V. W. Scarola, Quantifying Entanglement in Cluster States Built with Error-Prone Interactions, Physical Review Research 3, 043118 (2021).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2104.12775 ] [DOI]

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P. T. Raum, G. Alvarez, T. Maier, and V. W. Scarola, Two-Particle Correlation Functions in Cluster Perturbation Theory : Hubbard Spin Susceptibilities, Physical Review B 101, 75122 (2020).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1908.10361 ] [DOI]

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Q. Guan, M. Highman, E. J. Meier, G. R. Williams, V. Scarola, B. DeMarco, S. Kotochigova, and B. Gadway, Nondestructive Dispersive Imaging of Rotationally Excited Ultracold Molecules, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 22, 20531 (2020).
[pdf] [ arXiv:2006.03484 ] [DOI]

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C. Zeng, T. D. Stanescu, C. Zhang, V. W. Scarola, and S. Tewari, Majorana Corner Modes with Solitons in an Attractive Hubbard-Hofstadter Model of Cold Atom Optical Lattices, Physical Review Letters 123, 060402 (2019).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1901.04466 ] [DOI]

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W. Hutzel, J. J. McCord, P. T. Raum, B. Stern, H. Wang, V. W. Scarola, and M. R. Peterson, Particle-Hole-Symmetric Model for a Paired Fractional Quantum Hall State in a Half-Filled Landau Level, Physical Review B 99, 045126 (2019).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1811.02646 ] [DOI]

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H.-Y. Hui, M. Chen, S. Tewari, and V. W. Scarola, Flux-Driven Quantum Spin Liquids in Kagome Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 100, 053614 (2019).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1902.11301 ] [DOI]

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W. Xu, W. Morong, H.-Y. Hui, V. W. Scarola, and B. DeMarco, Correlated Spin-Flip Tunneling in a Fermi Lattice Gas, Physical Review A 98, 023623 (2018).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1711.02061 ] [DOI]

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H.-Y. Hui, M. Chen, S. Tewari, and V. W. Scarola, Chiral Topological Phases in Optical Lattices without Synthetic Fields, Physical Review A 98, 023609 (2018).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1712.10238 ] [DOI]

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M. Chen, H.-Y. Hui, S. Tewari, and V. W. Scarola, Quantum Anomalous Hall State from Spatially Decaying Interactions on the Decorated Honeycomb Lattice, Physical Review B 97, 035114 (2018).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1705.05829 ] [DOI]

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M. Yan, Y. Qian, H.-Y. Hui, M. Gong, C. Zhang, and V. W. Scarola, Spin-Orbit-Driven Transitions between Mott Insulators and Finite-Momentum Superfluids of Bosons in Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 96, 053619 (2017).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1312.4011 ] [DOI]

58.
M. Yan, H.-Y. Hui, and V. W. Scarola, Dynamics of Disordered States in the Bose-Hubbard Model with Confinement, Physical Review A 95, 053624 (2017).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1601.06817 ] [DOI]

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M. Yan, H.-Y. Hui, M. Rigol, and V. W. Scarola, Equilibration Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Bosons in 2D Lattices with Disorder, Physical Review Letters 119, 073002 (2017).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1606.03444 ] [DOI]

56.
P. T. Raum and V. W. Scarola, Thermometry for Laughlin States of Ultracold Atoms, Physical Review Letters 118, 115302 (2017).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1609.01709 ] [DOI]

55.
F. Lin, T. A. Maier, and V. W. Scarola, Disordered Supersolids in the Extended Bose-Hubbard Model, Scientific Reports 7, 12752 (2017).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1510.00291 ] [DOI]

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H. Y. Hui, Y. Zhang, C. Zhang, and V. W. Scarola, Superfluidity in the Absence of Kinetics in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 95, 33603 (2017).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1606.08439 ] [DOI]

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M. Chen and V. W. Scarola, Stability of Emergent Kinetics in Optical Lattices with Artificial Spin-Orbit Coupling, Physical Review A 94, 43601 (2016).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1607.00001 ] [DOI]

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F. Bao, Y. Tang, M. Summers, G. Zhang, C. Webster, V. Scarola, and T. A. Maier, Fast and Efficient Stochastic Optimization for Analytic Continuation, Physical Review B 94, 125149 (2016).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1609.02578 ] [DOI]

51.
V. W. Scarola and B. DeMarco, Dynamics of Hubbard-Band Quasiparticles in Disordered Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 92, 053628 (2015).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1503.07195 ] [DOI]

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K. Pakrouski, M. R. Peterson, T. Jolicoeur, V. W. Scarola, C. Nayak, and M. Troyer, Phase Diagram of the v = 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Effects of Landau-Level Mixing and Nonzero Width, Physical Review X 5, 021004 (2015).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1411.1068 ] [DOI]

49.
M. Gong, Y. Qian, M. Yan, V. W. Scarola, and C. Zhang, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Spiral Order in Spin-Orbit Coupled Optical Lattices, Scientific Reports 5, 10050 (2015).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1205.6211 ] [DOI]

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M. Chen and V. W. Scarola, Reordering Fractional Chern Insulators into Stripes of Fractional Charges with Long-Range Interactions, Physical Review B 92, 035138 (2015).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1409.5372 ] [DOI]

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V. W. Scarola, Wave-Function Vortex Attachment via Matrix Products: Application to Atomic Fermi Gases in Flat Spin-Orbit Bands, Physical Review B 89, 115136 (2014).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1305.6852 ] [DOI]

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F. Lin, C. Zhang, and V. W. Scarola, Emergent Kinetics and Fractionalized Charge in 1d Spin-Orbit Coupled Flatband Optical Lattices, Physical Review Letters 112, 110404 (2014).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1308.5601 ] [DOI]

45.
F. Lin and V. W. Scarola, Enhancing the Thermal Stability of Majorana Fermions with Redundancy Using Dipoles in Optical Lattices, Physical Review Letters 111, 220401 (2013).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1210.0799 ] [DOI]

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E. Kozik, E. Burovski, V. W. Scarola, and M. Troyer, Néel Temperature and Thermodynamics of the Half-Filled Three-Dimensional Hubbard Model by Diagrammatic Determinant Monte Carlo, Physical Review B 87, 205102 (2013).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1212.3027 ] [DOI]

43.
H. Wang and V. W. Scarola, Models of Strong Interaction in Flat-Band Graphene Nanoribbons: Magnetic Quantum Crystals, Physical Review B 85, 75438 (2012).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1108.0088 ] [DOI]

42.
S. Tewari, J. D. Sau, V. W. Scarola, C. Zhang, and S. Das Sarma, Probing a Topological Quantum Critical Point in Semiconductor- Superconductor Heterostructures, Physical Review B 85, 155302 (2012).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1106.5506 ] [DOI]

41.
Y. Khorramzadeh, F. Lin, and V. W. Scarola, Boson Core Compressibility, Physical Review A 85, 043610 (2012).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1201.0523 ] [DOI]

40.
B. Kemburi and V. Scarola, Percolation-Enhanced Supersolids in the Extended Bose-Hubbard Model, Physical Review B 85, 20501 (2012).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1110.2957 ] [DOI]

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V. L. Campo, K. Capelle, C. Hooley, J. Quintanilla, and V. W. Scarola, Thermal versus Quantum Fluctuations of Optical-Lattice Fermions, Physical Review A 85, 33644 (2012).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1107.4349 ] [DOI]

38.
H. Wang and V. W. Scarola, Jastrow-Correlated Wave Functions for Flat-Band Lattices, Physical Review B 83, 245109 (2011).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1009.4194 ] [DOI]

37.
H. Wang, B. Bauer, M. Troyer, and V. W. Scarola, Identifying Quantum Topological Phases through Statistical Correlation, Physical Review B 83, 115119 (2011).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1009.4692 ] [DOI]

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L. De Leo, J. S. Bernier, C. Kollath, A. Georges, and V. W. Scarola, Thermodynamics of the Three-Dimensional Hubbard Model: Implications for Cooling Cold Atomic Gases in Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 83, 23606 (2011).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1009.2761 ] [DOI]

35.
B. Bauer et al., The ALPS Project Release 2.0: Open Source Software for Strongly Correlated Systems, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2011, P05001 (2011).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1101.2646 ] [DOI]

34.
V. W. Scarola, C. May, M. R. Peterson, and M. Troyer, Subband Engineering Even-Denominator Quantum Hall States, Physical Review B 82, 121304 (2010).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1004.1636 ] [DOI]

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K. Park, J. J. Heremans, V. W. Scarola, and D. Minic, Robustness of Topologically Protected Surface States in Layering of Bi 2Te3 Thin Films, Physical Review Letters 105, 186801 (2010).
[pdf] [ arXiv:1005.3476 ] [DOI]

32.
R. Jördens et al., Quantitative Determination of Temperature in the Approach to Magnetic Order of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice, Physical Review Letters 104, 180401 (2010).
[pdf] [ arXiv:0912.3790 ] [DOI]

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C. M. Herdman, K. C. Young, V. W. Scarola, M. Sarovar, and K. B. Whaley, Stroboscopic Generation of Topological Protection, Physical Review Letters 104, 230501 (2010).
[pdf] [ arXiv:0907.3988 ] [DOI]

30.
B. Bauer, M. Troyer, V. W. Scarola, and K. B. Whaley, Distinguishing Phases with Ansatz Wave Functions, Physical Review B 81, 85118 (2010).
[pdf] [ arXiv:0903.1454 ] [DOI]

29.
V. W. Scarola, K. B. Whaley, and M. Troyer, Thermal Canting of Spin-Bond Order, Physical Review B 79, 85113 (2009).
[pdf] [ arXiv:0808.1748 ] [DOI]

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V. W. Scarola, L. Pollet, J. Oitmaa, and M. Troyer, Discerning Incompressible and Compressible Phases of Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices, Physical Review Letters 102, 135302 (2009).
[pdf] [ arXiv:0809.3239 ] [DOI]

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I. V. Kukushkin, J. H. Smet, V. W. Scarola, V. Umansky, and K. von Klitzing, Dispersion of the Excitations of Fractional Quantum Hall States, Science 324, 1044 (2009).
[pdf] [DOI]

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V. W. Scarola and S. Das Sarma, Emulating Non-Abelian Topological Matter in Cold-Atom Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 77, 23612 (2008).
[pdf] [ arXiv:0707.4435 ] [DOI]

25.
C. Zhang, V. W. Scarola, and S. D. Sarma, Initializing a Quantum Register from Mott-Insulator States in Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 75, 60301 (2007).
[pdf] [ arXiv:quant-ph/0701172 ] [DOI]

24.
C. Zhang, V. W. Scarola, and S. Das Sarma, Probing N-Spin Correlations in Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 76, 023605 (2007).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0611689 ] [DOI]

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C. Zhang, V. W. Scarola, S. Tewari, and S. Das Sarma, Anyonic Braiding in Optical Lattices, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, 18415 (2007).
[pdf] [ arXiv:quant-ph/0609101 ] [DOI]

22.
V. W. Scarola and S. Das Sarma, Edge Transport in 2D Cold Atom Optical Lattices, Physical Review Letters 98, 210403 (2007).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0612302 ] [DOI]

21.
S. Tewari, V. W. Scarola, T. Senthil, and S. D. Sarma, Emergence of Artificial Photons in an Optical Lattice, Physical Review Letters 97, 200401 (2006).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0605154 ] [DOI]

20.
V. W. Scarola, E. Demler, and S. Das Sarma, Searching for a Supersolid in Cold-Atom Optical Lattices, Physical Review A 73, 51601 (2006).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0602319 ] [DOI]

19.
V. W. Scarola and S. Das Sarma, Cold-Atom Optical Lattices as Quantum Analog Simulators for Aperiodic One-Dimensional Localization without Disorder, Physical Review A 73, 041609 (2006).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0506415 ] [DOI]

18.
V. W. Scarola and S. D. Sarma, Exchange Gate in Solid-State Spin-Quantum Computation: The Applicability of the Heisenberg Model, Physical Review A 71, 32340 (2005).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0410521 ] [DOI]

17.
V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and S. D. Sarma, Pseudo-Spin Quantum Computation in Semiconductor Nanostructures, New Journal of Physics 7, 177 (2005).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0503257 ] [DOI]

16.
V. W. Scarola and S. Das Sarma, Quantum Phases of the Extended Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian: Possibility of a Supersolid State of Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices, Physical Review Letters 95, 033003 (2005).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0503378 ] [DOI]

15.
J. K. Jain, K. Park, M. R. Peterson, and V. W. Scarola, Composite Fermion Theory of Excitations in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Solid State Communications 135, 602 (2005).
[pdf] [DOI]

14.
V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and S. Das Sarma, Chirality in Quantum Computation with Spin Cluster Qubits, Physical Review Letters 93, 120503 (2004).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0403444 ] [DOI]

13.
V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and S. D. Sarma, Pseudospin Quantum Computation in Semiconductor Nanostructures, Physical Review Letters 91, 167903 (2003).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0304225 ] [DOI]

12.
K. Park, V. W. Scarola, and S. Das Sarma, Even-Odd Effect in Spontaneously Coherent Bilayer Quantum Hall Droplets, Physical Review Letters 91, 026804 (2003).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0212106 ] [DOI]

11.
V. W. Scarola and G. D. Mahan, Phonon Drag Effect in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Physical Review B 66, 205405 (2002).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0211120 ] [DOI]

10.
V. W. Scarola, S. Y. Lee, and J. K. Jain, Excitation Gaps of Incompressible Composite Fermion States: Approach to the Fermi Sea, Physical Review B 66, 155320 (2002).
[pdf] [DOI]

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V. W. Scarola, J. K. Jain, and E. H. Rezayi, Possible Pairing-Induced Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in the Lowest Landau Level, Physical Review Letters 88, 216804 (2002).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0203287 ] [DOI]

8.
V. W. Scarola, S. Y. Lee, and J. K. Jain, Possible New Phases of Composite Fermions., International Journal of Modern Physics B 16, 2946 (2002).
[pdf] [DOI]

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S. Y. Lee, V. W. Scarola, and J. K. Jain, Structures for Interacting Composite Fermions: Stripes, Bubbles, and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Physical Review B 66, 85336 (2002).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0311513 ] [DOI]

6.
V. W. Scarola and J. K. Jain, Phase Diagram of Bilayer Composite Fermion States, Physical Review B 64, 85313 (2001).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0011511 ] [DOI]

5.
S.-Y. Lee, V. W. Scarola, and J. K. Jain, Stripe Formation in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime, Physical Review Letters 87, 256803 (2001).
[pdf] [ arXiv:cond-mat/0104210 ] [DOI]

4.
J. K. Jain, R. K. Kamilla, K. Park, and V. W. Scarola, Interacting Composite Fermions, Solid State Communications 117, 117 (2001).
[pdf] [DOI]

3.
V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and J. K. Jain, Cooper Instability of Composite Fermions, Nature 406, 863 (2000).
[pdf] [arXiv:cond-mat/0012030] [DOI]

2.
V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and J. K. Jain, Rotons of Composite Fermions: Comparison between Theory and Experiment, Physical Review B 61, 13064 (2000).
[pdf] [arXiv:cond-mat/9910491] [DOI]

1.
V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and J. K. Jain, Excitonic Collapse of Higher Landau Level Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Physical Review B 62, R16259 (2000).
[pdf] [arXiv:cond-mat/0011512] [DOI]

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