A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE QUANTUM HALL PLATEAU-TO-PLATEAU TRANSITIONS

Authors
SHAHAR D TSUI DC SHAYEGAN M SHIMSHONI E SONDHI SL
Citation
D. Shahar et al., A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE QUANTUM HALL PLATEAU-TO-PLATEAU TRANSITIONS, Physical review letters, 79(3), 1997, pp. 479-482
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
79
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
479 - 482
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)79:3<479:ADVOTQ>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally that the transitions between adjacent in teger quantum Hall (QH) states are equivalent to a QH-to-insulator tra nsition occurring in the top Landau level, in the presence of an inert background of the other completely filled Landau levels, each contrib uting a single unit of quantum conductance, e(2)/h, to the total Hall conductance of the system. The equivalence holds for numerical paramet ers describing the transition, as well as for the recently discovered reflection symmetry of the resistivity.