Coulomb Gap in the Quantum Hall Insulator
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We calculate numerically the spectrum of disordered electrons in the lowest Landau level at filling factor 1/5 using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation for systems containing up to 400 flux quanta. Special attention is paid to the correct treatment of the q = 0 component of the Coulomb interaction. For sufficiently strong disorder, the system is an insulator at this filling factor. We observe numerically a Coulomb gap in the single-particle density of states (DOS). The DOS agrees quantitatively with the predictions for classical point charges.
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