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Transient Oscillation of Currents in Quantum Hall Effect of Bloch Electrons

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2008-12-16 v1

Abstract

We consider the quantum Hall effect of two-dimensional electrons with a periodic potential and study the time dependence of the Hall and longitudinal currents when the electric field is applied abruptly. We find that the currents oscillate in time with very large frequencies because of quantum fluctuation and the oscillations eventually vanish, for their amplitudes decay as 1/t.

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@article{arxiv.0712.1387,
  title  = {Transient Oscillation of Currents in Quantum Hall Effect of Bloch Electrons},
  author = {Manabu Machida and Jun Goryo and Naomichi Hatano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1387},
  year   = {2008}
}

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16 pages and 8 figures