Quasi Fermi distribution and resonant tunneling of quasiparticles with fractional charges

V. L. Pokrovsky and L. P. Pryadko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 124 – Published 3 January 1994
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Abstract

We study the resonant tunneling of quasiparticles (anyons) through an impurity between the edges of a fractional quantum Hall sample. These quasiparticles are anyons, but their equilibrium one-particle correlation functions are shown to have some quasi Fermi properties. The broken symmetry of many-particle states at the impurity yields a new selection rule for the resonant tunneling: The resonance is suppressed unless an integer number of electrons occupies the impurity. This rule allows an explanation of the scaling behavior observed in the mesoscopic fluctuations of the conductivity in the fractional quantum Hall effect.

  • Received 18 May 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.124

©1994 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

V. L. Pokrovsky

  • Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
  • L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, V-334 Kosygina 2, Moscow, GSP-1, 117 940, Russia

L. P. Pryadko

  • Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

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Vol. 72, Iss. 1 — 3 January 1994

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