EDGE STATES IN THE FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL-EFFECT

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作者
WANG, JK
GOLDMAN, VJ
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[1] Department of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.749
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We have studied nonlocal electrical transport over macroscopic distances in the regime of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE). Experiments clearly demonstrate dissipationless edge-state conduction associated with the FQHE. Surprisingly, our data imply that there is no edge-state conduction near filling factor-nu = 1/2 and on the low-nu-side of the nu = 1 QHE state, while edge-state conduction is observed near nu = 3/2 and on the high-nu-side of the nu = 1 QHE state. We also observe that the electron-hole symmetry is broken for the edge states in a confined geometry.
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