Intermixture of extended edge and localized bulk energy levels in macroscopic Hall systems

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/30/311MaRDI QIDQ4465971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Ferrari, Nicolas Macris

Publication date 9 June 2004

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0011013

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear operators on spaces with an indefinite metric (47B50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Abstract: We study the spectrum of a random Schroedinger operator for an electron submitted to a magnetic field in a finite but macroscopic two dimensional system of linear dimensions equal to L. The y direction is periodic and in the x direction the electron is confined by two smooth increasing boundary potentials. The eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian are classified according to their associated quantum mechanical current in the y direction. Here we look at an interval of energies inside the first Landau band of the random operator for the infinite plane. In this energy interval, with large probability, there exist O(L) eigenvalues with positive or negative currents of O(1). Between each of these there exist O(L^2) eigenvalues with infinitesimal current O(exp(-cB(log L)^2)). We explain what is the relevance of this analysis to the integer quantum Hall effect.

Recommendations

• Extended edge states in finite Hall systems
• Simultaneous quantization of edge and bulk Hall conductivity
• Universal edge transport in interacting Hall systems
• On the extended nature of edge states of quantum Hall Hamiltonians
• Spectral flow and level spacing of edge states for quantum Hall Hamiltonians
• Edge and impurity effects on quantization of Hall currents
• Bulk-boundary correspondence in the quantum Hall effect
• Characterization of bulk states in one-edge quantum Hall systems
• On edge states in semi-infinite quantum Hall systems
• Equality of bulk and edge Hall conductance revisited

Cited in

(10)

• Edge and impurity effects on quantization of Hall currents
• Spectral properties of finite quantum Hall systems
• EDGE CURRENTS FOR QUANTUM HALL SYSTEMS I: ONE-EDGE, UNBOUNDED GEOMETRIES
• Spectral flow and level spacing of edge states for quantum Hall Hamiltonians
• Extended edge states in finite Hall systems
• Space-adiabatic theory for random-Landau Hamiltonian: results and prospects
• Absolute continuity of the magnetic Schrödinger operator with periodic potential
• Quantization of edge currents along magnetic barriers and magnetic guides
• Edge currents for quantum Hall systems. II: Two-edge, bounded and unbounded geometries
• Semiclassical analysis of edge state energies in the integer quantum Hall effect

This page was built for publication: Intermixture of extended edge and localized bulk energy levels in macroscopic Hall systems

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4465971)