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Title: Multiple edges of a quantum Hall system in a strong electric
Author: Ray, Rashmi
Soto Riera, Joan
Keywords: Camps elèctrics
Efecte Hall
Electric fields
Hall effect
Issue Date: 1996
Publisher: The American Physical Society
Abstract: In this paper we show that if the electrons in a quantum Hall sample are subjected to a constant electric field in the plane of the material, comparable in magnitude to the background magnetic field on the system of electrons, a multiplicity of edge states localized at different regions of space is produced in the sample. The actions governing the dynamics of these edge states are obtained starting from the well-known Schrödinger field theory for a system of nonrelativistic electrons, where on top of the constant background electric and magnetic fields, the electrons are further subject to slowly varying weak electromagnetic fields. In the regions between the edges, dubbed as the "bulk," the fermions can be integrated out entirely and the dynamics expressed in terms of a local effective action involving the slowly varying electromagnetic potentials. It is further shown how the bulk action is gauge noninvariant in a particular way, and how the edge states conspire to restore the U(1) electromagnetic gauge invariance of the system. In the edge action we obtain a heretofore unnoticed gauge-invariant term that depends on the particular edge. We argue that this term may be detected experimentally as different edges respond differently to a monochromatic probe due to this term
Note: Reproducció digital del document publicat en format paper, proporcionada per PROLA i http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.54.10709
It is part of: Physical Review B, 1996, num. 54, núm. 15, p. 10709-10719
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/10488
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.54.10709
ISSN: 0163-1829
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