Transport in a disordered =2/3 fractional quantum Hall junction

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2017.07.015MaRDI QIDQ2409882zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan V. Protopopov, Yuval Gefen, A. D. Mirlin

Publication date 16 October 2017

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02746

zbMATH Keywords

fractional quantum Hall effectnon-chiral edgequantum transportstrong-disorder fixed point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: Electric and thermal transport properties of a $u=2/3$ fractional quantum Hall junction are analyzed. We investigate the evolution of the electric and thermal two-terminal conductances, $G$ and $G^Q$, with system size $L$ and temperature $T$. This is done both for the case of strong interaction between the 1 and 1/ 3 modes (when the low-temperature physics of the interacting segment of the device is controlled by the vicinity of the strong-disorder Kane-Fisher-Polchinski fixed point) and for relatively weak interaction, for which the disorder is irrelevant at $T=0$ in the renormalization-group sense. The transport properties in both cases are similar in several respects. In particular, $G(L)$ is close to 4/3 (in units of $e^2/h$) and $G^Q$ to 2 (in units of $piT/6hbar$) for small $L$, independently of the interaction strength. For large $L$ the system is in an incoherent regime, with $G$ given by 2/3 and $G^Q$ showing the Ohmic scaling, $G^{Q}propto1/L$, again for any interaction strength. The hallmark of the strong-disorder fixed point is the emergence of an intermediate range of $L$, in which the electric conductance shows strong mesoscopic fluctuations and the thermal conductance is $G^Q=1$. The analysis is extended also to a device with floating 1/3 mode, as studied in a recent experiment [A. Grivnin et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266803 (2014)].

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