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Universality and Phase Diagram around Half-filled Landau Level

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

Gated GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures were used to determine the low-temperature behavior of the two-dimensional electron gas near filling factor nu=1/2 in the disorder-magnetic-field plane. We identify a line on which sigma_{xy} is temperature independent, has value sigma_{xy}=0.5 (e^{2}/h), and a distinct line on which rho_{xy}=2 (h/e^{2}). The phase boundaries between the Hall insulator and the principal quantum Hall liquids at nu=1 and 1/3 show levitation of the delocalized states of the first Landau levels for electrons and composite fermions. Finally, the data suggest that there is no true metallic phase around nu=1/2.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9701101,
  title  = {Universality and Phase Diagram around Half-filled Landau Level},
  author = {L. W. Wong and H. W. Jiang and W. J. Schaff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9701101},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages (Revtex), 5 figures