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Persistent Currents and Dissipation in Narrow Bilayer Quantum Hall Bars

Jordan Kyriakidis, Leo Radzihovsky

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0010329

Abstract

Bilayer quantum Hall states support a flow of nearly dissipationless staggered current which can only decay through collective channels. We study the dominant finite-temperature dissipation mechanism which in narrow bars is driven by thermal nucleation of pseudospin solitons. We find the finite-temperature resistivity, predict the resulting staggered current-voltage characteristics, and calculate the associated zero-temperature critical staggered current and gate voltage.

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