Quantum-Hall
Insulator
Transition
Angus MacKinnon | |
Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College | |
London SW7 2BW, UK | |
Oct. 01 – Sep. 02: Cavendish Laboratory | |
Madingley Rd, Cambridge, UK | |
Low Disorder – Quantum Hall Effect | |
High Disorder – Insulator | |
How does the transition happen? | |
Levitation? | |
Some other mechanism? | |
Acknowledgement: James Dynes |
Density of
States
&
Localisation Length
Calculate | |
Green’s Function Recursion | |
Landauer Geometry |
Hall Conductivity falls in steps, but is not quantised. | |
Higher plateaux fall first. | |
No sign of movement of the transition region. | |
Levitation – 1 | |
Something else – 2 & 3 |