EDGE-STATE TRANSPORT AND CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATIONS IN THE METALLIC PHASE OF THE QUANTUM HALL REGIME

We study mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in the metallic phase of the integer quantum Hall effect. We derive effective boundary conditio ns for the diffuson propagator which incorporate the edge-state transp ort along the sample boundaries. It is shown that the presence of edge states leads to a resonance structure in the conductance fluctuations which occurs as the Fermi level moves across the band of extended sta tes. The result of this analytic treatment is consistent with that of our numerical simulations and can be tested experimentally.