Is Hall Conductance in Hall Bar Geometry a Topological Invariant ?
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چکیده
A deep connection between the Hall conductance in realistic situation and a topological invariant is pointed out based on von-Neumann lattice representation in which Landau level electrons have minimum spatial extensions. We show that the Hall conductance has no finite size correction in quantum Hall regime, but a coefficient of induced Chern-Simons term in QED 3 has a small finite size correction, although both of them are similar topological invariant.
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