Abstract
We show that the rms fluctuation of the antisymmetric part of the Hall conductance of a planar mesoscopic metal in a random magnetic field with zero average is universal; it is of the order of /h, independent of both the amplitude of the random magnetic field and the diffusion coefficient even in the weak-field limit. This quantity is exactly zero in the case of ordinary scalar disorder. A similar statement holds for some other systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. We propose an experiment to measure this surprising effect.
- Received 18 July 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.52.R8688
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