lead to compressible phases without quantized conductance. This is the case with the simplest of all fractions – $\nu=1/2$ in $n=0$ LL – which is a Fermi liquid of composite fermions [@hlr], that only supports an anomalous Hall effect [@anomalous]. Generically for any $\nu$, apart from the incompressible liquids, the natural candidates are compressible phases that break translational symmetry, such as charge density waves (CDWs) [@anisotropic]. Those were in fact proposed to describe the ground state of 2DES before FQHE was observed [@fukuyama]. When $\nu$ is very small (under $1/7$), a correlated Wigner crystal indeed becomes energetically superior to a Laughlin-type state [@lamgirvin; @edduncanky_wigner]. Furthermore, when $\nu > 2$, several varieties of states with broken translational symmetry become energetically favorable. Around half filling of $n\geq 2$ LL, the ground state becomes a charge density wave in one spatial direction or a “stripe" [@kfs_prl; @kfs_prb; @moessner_chalker; @edduncanky_stripe]; away from half filling, two-dimesional crystalline order sets in, resulting in a “bubble" phase [@kfs_prl; @kfs_prb; @moessner_chalker; @edduncanky_bubble]. Some of these phases also occur in $n<2$ LLs when the hard-core component of the effective interaction is significantly softer than Coulomb [@rh_pf]. More recently, the experiments have shown [@xia2011] that it is possible to have, 