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Possible existence of a band of extended states induced by inter-Landau-band mixing in quantum Hall system

Gang Xiong, Shi-Dong Wang, Qian Niu, Yupeng Wang, X. C. Xie, De-Cheng Tian, X. R. Wang

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0512374

Abstract

The mixing of states with opposite chirality in quantum Hall system is shown to have delocalization effect. It is possible that extended states may form bands because of this mixing, as is shown through a numerical calculation on a two-channel network model. Based on this result, a new phase diagram with a narrow metallic phase separating two adjacent QH phases and/or separating a QH phase from the insulating phase is proposed. The data from recent non-scaling experiments is reanalyzed and shown that they seem to be consistent with the new phase diagram. However, due to finite-size effects, further study on large system size is still needed to conclude whether there are extended state bands in thermodynamic limit.

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