Informal Seminar on Disorder and Strong Electron Correlations - "Electron interactions and transport between coupled quantum Hall edges"
Starts 17 Mar 2005 11:00
Ends 17 Mar 2005 20:00
Central European Time
ICTP
Main Building Room 239
Strada Costiera, 11
I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
We examine the effects of electron-electron interactions on transport between edge states in a multilayer integer quantum Hall system. The edge states of such a system, coupled by interlayer tunneling, form a two-dimensional, chiral metal at the sample surface. We calculate the temperature-dependent conductivity and the amplitude of conductance fluctuations in this chiral metal, treating Coulomb interactions and disorder exactly in the weak-tunneling limit. We find that conductivity increases with increasing temperature, as observed in recent experiments, and we show that the correlation length characterising conductance fluctuations varies inversely with temperature.