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Universal non-equilibrium states at the fractional quantum Hall edge

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-04-27 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Integrability of electron dynamics in one dimension is manifested by the non-equilibrium stationary states. They emerge near a point contact coupling two quantum Hall edges with different chemical potentials. I use the non-equilibrium bosonization technique to show that the effective temperature of such states at the fractional quantum Hall edges has a universal linear dependence on the current through the contact. In contrast, the temperature at eventual equilibrium scales as the square root of the power dissipating at the point contact. I propose to use this distinction to detect these intriguing non-equilibrium states.

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@article{arxiv.1402.1989,
  title  = {Universal non-equilibrium states at the fractional quantum Hall edge},
  author = {Ivan P. Levkivskyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1989},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6+ pages, 4 figures; accepted version