Universal conductance in the lowest Landau level

Y. Huo, R. E. Hetzel, and R. N. Bhatt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 481 – Published 25 January 1993
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Abstract

We have performed numerical calculations of the diagonal and off-diagonal (Hall) components of the conductivity tensor for a system of noninteracting electrons in two dimensions at high magnetic fields (lowest Landau level), in the presence of a random potential. We have considered five different potentials, with varying correlation length, with and without electron-hole symmetry. Our results are consistent, within statistical uncertainties, with a conductivity tensor at the critical energy with both components equal to 0.5e2/h. This suggests that the conductivity tensor at the lowest-Landau-level integer quantum Hall transition is universal, independent of the details for short-range random potentials.

  • Received 6 August 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.481

©1993 American Physical Society

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Y. Huo, R. E. Hetzel, and R. N. Bhatt

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

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Vol. 70, Iss. 4 — 25 January 1993

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