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We have studied the conductivity peak in the transition region between the two lowest integer Quantum Hall states using transmission measurements of edge magnetoplasmons. The width of the transition region is found to increase linearly with…

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The temperature dependence of the magneto-conductivity in graphene shows that the widths of the longitudinal conductivity peaks, for the N=1 Landau level of electrons and holes, display a power-law behavior following $\Delta \nu \propto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-17 A. J. M. Giesbers , U. Zeitler , L. A. Ponomarenko , R. Yang , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , J. C. Maan

Quasi-two dimensional electron systems exhibit peculiar transport effects depending on their density profiles and temperature. A usual two dimensional electron system is assumed to have a $\delta$ like density distribution along the crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 G. Oylumluoglu , S. Mirioglu , S. Aksu , U. Erkaslan , A. Siddiki

We derive an empirical formula for the width of quantum Hall effect plateaus which is free of adjustable parameters. It describes the integer, fractional and $\nu = 0$ (Wigner insulator) quantum Hall effect in single heterojunctions. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Atanas Groshev

We study the critical properties of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) plateau transition in magnetic topological insulators. We introduce a microscopic model for the plateau transition in QAH effect at the coercive field and then map it to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We report a continuous phase transition between quantum-anomalous-Hall and trivial-insulator phases in a magnetic topological insulator upon magnetization rotation. The Hall conductivity transits from one plateau of quantized Hall…

Double layer quantum Hall systems have interesting properties associated with interlayer correlations. At $\nu =1/m$ where $m$ is an odd integer they exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking equivalent to that of spin $1/2$ easy-plane…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Kun Yang , K. Moon , L. Zheng , A. H. MacDonald , S. M. Girvin , D. Yoshioka , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We report on the dramatic evolution of the quantum Hall ferromagnet in the fractional quantum Hall regime at $\nu = 2/5$ filling. A large enhancement in the characteristic timescale gives rise to a dynamical transition into a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michelle Chen , Woowon Kang , Werner Wegscheider

We have measured the temperature dependence of the conductivity $\sigma_{xx}$ of a two-dimensional electron system deep into the localized regime of the quantum Hall plateau transition. Using variable-range hopping theory we are able to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Hohls , U. Zeitler , R. J. Haug

It is shown that the statements about the observation of the transitions between the insulating phase and the integer quantum Hall effect phases with the quantized Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}^{q}$ $\geq 3e^{2}/h$ made in a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. S. Murzin

We present high frequency measurements of the diagonal conductivity sigma_xx of a two dimensional electron system in the integer quantum Hall regime. The width of the sigma_xx peaks between QHE minima is analyzed within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Hohls , U. Zeitler , R. J. Haug , K. Pierz

We report results of a study of (integer) quantum Hall transitions in a single or multiple Landau levels for non-interacting electrons in disordered two-dimensional systems, obtained by projecting a tight-binding Hamiltonian to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. N. Bhatt , Xin Wan

We study finite temperature ($T$) properties of the continuum quantum field theory of systems with a ferromagnetic ground state. A scaling theory of the $T=0$ system is discussed carefully, and its consequences for crossovers between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. Read , Subir Sachdev

We report quantum Hall experiments on the plateau-insulator transition in a low mobility In_{.53} Ga_{.47} As/InP heterostructure. The data for the longitudinal resistance \rho_{xx} follow an exponential law and we extract a critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. T. F. van Schaijk , A. de Visser , S. Olsthoorn , H. P. Wei , A. M. M. Pruisken

We report in this paper results of experimental and theoretical studies of transitions between different integer quantum Hall phases, as well as transition between the insulating phase and quantum Hall phases at high magnetic fields. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kun Yang , D. Shahar , R. N. Bhatt , D. C. Tsui , M. Shayegan

We present a consistent treatment of the quantum Hall effect within the electrostatic approximation. We derive the form of the density of states (DOS) which differs from the usual gaussian shape valid for non-interacting electrons. Below a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Tsemekhman , V. Tsemekhman , C. Wexler

We consider the effect of disorder on the themopower in quantum Hall systems. For a sample in the Corbino geometry, where dissipative currents are not carried by edge states, we find that thermopower behaves at high temperatures like a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-02 N. d'Ambrumenil , R. H. Morf

We examine the magnetic field driven insulator-quantum Hall-insulator transitions of the two dimensional hole gas in a Ge/SiGe quantum well. We observe direct transitions between low and high magnetic field insulators and the $\nu=1$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Hilke , D. Shahar , S. H. Song , D. C. Tsui , Y. H. Xie , Don Monroe

We present a spectrum of experimental data on the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states in the first excited Landau level, obtained in an ultrahigh mobility two-dimensional electron system (2DES) and at very low temperatures and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Pan , J. S. Xia , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , C. Vicente , E. D. Adams , N. S. Sullivan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We present a new theoretical approach for the integer quantum Hall effect, which is able to describe the inter-plateau transitions as well as the transition to the Hall insulator. We find two regimes (metallic and insulator like) of the top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Oswald , G. Span , F. Kuchar