Edge States on a Quantum Hall Liquid--Solid Interface

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1998-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9802191v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

7 Phys. Rev. pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.58.4694

We study the edge--states excitations of a droplet of quantum Hall liquid embedded in an electron (Wigner) solid. The presence of strong correlations between the liquid and solid sectors in the ground state is shown to be reflected in the density of states $D(E)$, associated with the excitations of the liquid--solid interface. We find that the prominent effect of these correlations is a suppression of $D(E)$ with respect to its value ($D_0(E)$) in the absence of the Wigner solid environment: $D(E) \sim e^{-\alpha |E|}D_0(E)$. The coefficient $\alpha$ (which is shown to vanish for a perfectly regular distribution of electron sites in the solid), is evaluated for two different realizations of an irregular distribution. We conclude that probing this effect (e.g. in a tunneling experiment), can provide evidence for correlated liquid--solid mixture states in quantum dots, or disordered samples, in very strong magnetic fields.

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