Widths of the Hall conductance plateaus (Q2482263)

The paper studies the charge transport of the non-interacting electron gas in a two-dimensional quantum Hall system with Anderson-type impurities at the zero temperature. It is proven that when the Fermi level is defined in a localization regime, the Hall conductance is quantized to the prior selected integer and exhibits the plateau of the bulk order for varying the filling factor of the electrons. The framework and the main results are displayed in the second section (which can be read alone), and the remaining ten sections yield their detailed lengthy proofs. The mathematics of the content is postponed in the appendix which is nearly half of the paper. The latter refers to various concepts such as site percolation on the triangular lattice of the impurities, multi-scale analysis, fractional moment bound, and non-commutative geometry.