Result: On the Extended Nature of Edge States of Quantum Hall Hamiltonians: On the extended nature of edge states of quantum Hall Hamiltonians

Title:
On the Extended Nature of Edge States of Quantum Hall Hamiltonians: On the extended nature of edge states of quantum Hall Hamiltonians
Source:
Annales Henri Poincaré. 1:405-442
Publication Status:
Preprint
Publisher Information:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2000.
Publication Year:
2000
Document Type:
Academic journal Article<br />Other literature type
File Description:
application/xml
Language:
English
ISSN:
1424-0637
DOI:
10.1007/s000230050001
DOI:
10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/9903014
Rights:
Springer TDM
arXiv Non-Exclusive Distribution
Accession Number:
edsair.doi.dedup.....0f06a4d5f1e4dadb9d3f3a15e6cd9ba7
Database:
OpenAIRE

Further Information

Properties of eigenstates of one-particle Quantum Hall Hamiltonians localized near the boundary of a two-dimensional electron gas - so-called edge states - are studied. For finite samples it is shown that edge states with energy in an appropriate range between Landau levels remain extended along the boundary in the presence of a small amount of disorder, in the sense that they carry a non-zero chiral edge current. For a two-dimensional electron gas confined to a half-plane, the Mourre theory of positive commutators is applied to prove absolute continuity of the energy spectrum well in between Landau levels, corresponding to edge states.
45 pages, 7 figures, reference added