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Quantization of the Hall conductivity well beyond the adiabatic limit in pulsed magnetic fields

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We measure the Hall conductivity, σxy\sigma_{xy}, on a Corbino geometry sample of a high-mobility AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure in a pulsed magnetic field. At a bath temperature about 80 mK, we observe well expressed plateaux in σxy\sigma_{xy} at integer filling factors. In the pulsed magnetic field, the Laughlin condition of the phase coherence of the electron wave functions is strongly violated and, hence, is not crucial for σxy\sigma_{xy} quantization.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0104429,
  title  = {Quantization of the Hall conductivity well beyond the adiabatic limit in pulsed magnetic fields},
  author = {V. T. Dolgopolov and A. A. Shashkin and J. M. Broto and H. Rakoto and S. Askenazy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0104429},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL