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Quantum Hall Transition in the Classical Limit

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-31 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study the quantum Hall transition using the density-density correlation function. We show that in the limit h->0 the electron density moves along the percolating trajectories, undergoing normal diffusion. The localization exponent coincides with its percolation value \nu=4/3. The framework provides a natural way to study the renormalization group flow from percolation to quantum Hall transition. We also confirm numerically that the critical conductivity of a classical limit of quantum Hall transition is \sigma_{xx} = \sqrt{3}/4.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008163,
  title  = {Quantum Hall Transition in the Classical Limit},
  author = {V. Gurarie and A. Zee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008163},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures; substantial changes include the critical conductivity calculation