Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2003-02-11
Phys. Rev. B 68, 035314 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
20 pages, 8 figures, Revtex4, adjourned with referee's comments, added references and typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.68.035314
The chiral Luttinger liquid model for the edge dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field is derived from coarse-graining and a lowest Landau level projection procedure at arbitrary filling factors $\nu<1$ -- without reference to the quantum Hall effect. Based on this model, we develop a formalism to calculate the Landauer-B\"uttiker conductances in generic experimental set-ups including multiple leads and voltage probes. In the absence of tunneling between the edges the "ideal" Hall conductances ($G_{ij}= \frac{e^2 \nu}{h}$ if lead $j$ is immediately upstream of lead $i$, and $G_{ij}=0$ otherwise) are recovered. Tunneling of quasiparticles of fractional charge $e^*$ between different edges is then included as an additional term in the Hamiltonian. In the limit of weak tunneling we obtain explicit expressions for the corrections to the ideal conductances. As an illustration of the formalism we compute the current- and temperature-dependent resistance $R_{xx}(I,T)$ of a quantum point contact localized at the center of a gate-induced constriction in a quantum Hall bar. The exponent $\alpha$ in the low-current relation $R_{xx}(I,0) \sim I^{\alpha -2}$ shows a nontrivial dependence on the strength of the inter-edge interaction, and its value changes as $e^*V_H$, where $V_H = \frac{h I}{\nu e^2}$ is the Hall voltage, falls below a characteristic crossover energy $\frac{\hbar c}{d}$, where $c$ is the edge wave velocity and $d$ is the length of the constriction. The consequences of this crossover are discussed vis-a-vis recent experiments in the weak tunneling regime.
D'Agosta Roberto
Raimondi Roberto
Vignale Giovanni
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