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A different view of the quantum Hall plateau-to-plateau transitions

D. Shahar, D. C. Tsui, M. Shayegan, E. Shimshoni, S. L. Sondhi

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/9611011

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally that the transitions between adjacent integer quantum Hall (QH) states are equivalent to a QH-to-insulator transition occurring in the top Landau level, in the presence of an inert background of the other completely filled Landau levels, each contributing a single unit of quantum conductance, e2/h, to the total Hall conductance of the system.

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