Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2008-08-16
EPL 86, 37010 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
6 pages, 3 figures; made several changes -- this is the published version
Scientific paper
We study transport across a point contact separating two line junctions in a \nu = 5/2 quantum Hall system. We analyze the effect of inter-edge Coulomb interactions between the chiral bosonic edge modes of the half-filled Landau level (assuming a Pfaffian wave function for the half-filled state) and of the two fully filled Landau levels. In the presence of inter-edge Coulomb interactions between all the six edges participating in the line junction, the stable fixed point corresponds to a point contact which is neither fully opaque nor fully transparent. Remarkably, this fixed point represents a situation where the half-filled level is fully transmitting, while the two filled levels are completely backscattered; hence the fixed point Hall conductance is given by G_H = {1/2} e^2/h. We predict the non-universal temperature power laws by which the system approaches the stable fixed point from the two unstable fixed points corresponding to the fully connected case (G_H = {5/2} e^2/h) and the fully disconnected case (G_H = 0).
Das Sourin
Rao Sumathi
Sen Diptiman
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