A Different View of the Quantum Hall Plateau-to-Plateau Transitions
- 21 July 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 79 (3) , 479-482
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.479
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, , to the total Hall conductance of the system. The equivalence holds for numerical parameters describing the transition, as well as for the recently discovered reflection symmetry of the resistivity.
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