Irrelevant Corrections at the Quantum Hall Transition

Conductance fluctuations at the quantum Hall plateau transition

We analyze the conductance fluctuations observed in the quantum Hall regime for a bulk two-dimensional electron system in a Corbino geometry. We find that characteristics like the power spectral density and the temperature dependence agree well with simple expectations for universal conductance fluctuations in metals, while the observed amplitude is reduced. In addition, the dephasing length LF...

Quantum hall plateau transition at order 1/N.

The localization behavior of noninteracting two-dimensional electrons in a random potential and strong magnetic field is of fundamental interest for the physics of the quantum Hall effect. In order to understand the emergence of power-law delocalization near the discrete extended-state energies E(n) = Planck's over 2piomega(c)(n+1 / 2), we study a generalization of the disorder-averaged Liouvil...

Percolation, Renormalization and the Quantum-Hall Transition

Percolation, Renormalization and the Quantum-Hall Transition

In this article, I give a pedagogical introduction and overview of percolation theory. Special emphasis will be put on the review of some of the most prominent of the algorithms that have been devised to study percolation numerically. At the central stage shall be the real-space renormalization group treatment of the percolation problem. As a rather novel application of this approach to percola...

Binding Transition in Quantum Hall Edge States

We study a class of Abelian quantum Hall (QH) states which are topologically unstable (T-unstable). We find that the T-unstable QH states can have a phase transition on the edge which causes a binding between electrons and reduces the number of gapless edge branches. After the binding transition, the single-electron tunneling into the edge gains a finite energy gap, and only certain multi-elect...