Edge currents for quantum Hall systems. II: Two-edge, bounded and unbounded geometries

DOI10.1007/S00023-008-0382-8zbMATH Open1172.81021arXivmath-ph/0702093OpenAlexW3102660440MaRDI QIDQ954765FDOQ954765

Authors: Peter D. Hislop, Eric Soccorsi 

Publication date: 18 November 2008

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Devices exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect can be modeled by one-electron Schroedinger operators describing the planar motion of an electron in a perpendicular, constant magnetic field, and under the influence of an electrostatic potential. The electron motion is confined to bounded or unbounded subsets of the plane by confining potential barriers. The edges of the confining potential barriers create edge currents. This is the second of two papers in which we review recent progress and prove explicit lower bounds on the edge currents associated with one- and two-edge geometries. In this paper, we study various unbounded and bounded, two-edge geometries with soft and hard confining potentials. These two-edge geometries describe the electron confined to unbounded regions in the plane, such as a strip, or to bounded regions, such as a finite length cylinder. We prove that the edge currents are stable under various perturbations, provided they are suitably small relative to the magnetic field strength, including perturbations by random potentials. The existence of, and the estimates on, the edge currents are independent of the spectral type of the operator.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0702093

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

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