Plateau transitions in fractional quantum Hall liquids
Authors:
Ken-Ichiro Imura
Affiliation:
(1) Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, batiment 100, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France, FR
Abstract:
Effects of backward scattering between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) edge modes are studied. Based on the edge-state picture for hierarchical FQH liquids, we discuss the possibility of the transitions between different plateaux of the tunneling conductance G. We find a selection rule for the sequence which begins with a conductance (m: integer, p: even integer) in units of e2/h. The shot-noise spectrum as well as the scaling behavior of the tunneling current is calculated explicitly. Received 5 October 1999 and Received in final form 19 November 1999