Visibility diagrams and experimental stripe structures in the quantum Halleffect

Citation
Y. Georgelin et al., Visibility diagrams and experimental stripe structures in the quantum Halleffect, J PHYS A, 33(48), 2000, pp. 8649-8662
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL
ISSN journal
03054470 → ACNP
Volume
33
Issue
48
Year of publication
2000
Pages
8649 - 8662
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-4470(200012)33:48<8649:VDAESS>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
We analyse various properties of the visibility diagrams that can be used i n the context of modular symmetries and confront them with some recent expe rimental developments in the quantum Hall effect. We show that a suitable p hysical interpretation of the visibility diagrams, which permits one to des cribe successfully the observed architecture of the quantum Hall states, gi ves rise naturally to a stripe structure reproducing some of the experiment al features that have been observed in the study of the quantum fluctuation s of Hall conductance. Furthermore, we show new properties of the visibilit y diagrams stemming from the structure of subgroups of the full modular gro up.