Quantization of the Hall conductivity well beyond the adiabatic limit in pulsed magnetic fields


Abstract in English

We measure the Hall conductivity, $sigma_{xy}$, on a Corbino geometry sample of a high-mobility AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure in a pulsed magnetic field. At a bath temperature about 80 mK, we observe well expressed plateaux in $sigma_{xy}$ at integer filling factors. In the pulsed magnetic field, the Laughlin condition of the phase coherence of the electron wave functions is strongly violated and, hence, is not crucial for $sigma_{xy}$ quantization.

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