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Semicircle law (quantum Hall effect)

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Although Dykhne and Ruzin's original analysis assumed little scattering, an assumption that proved empirically unsound, the law holds in the coherent-transport limits commonly observed in experiment.
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The semicircle law was first described theoretically in Dykhne and Ruzin's analysis of the quantum Hall effect as a
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Felix von Oppen; Halperin, Bertrand I; Stern, Ady (1999). "Conductivity tensor of striped quantum Hall phases".
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is a parameter that encodes the classical conductivity of each phase. A similar law also holds for the
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quantum Hall phases, the relationship is slightly more complex, because of the broken symmetry:
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Hilke, M.; Shahar, D.; Song, S. H.; Tsui, D. C.; Xie, Y. H.; Shayegan, M. (1999-06-15).
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Theoretically, the semicircle law originates from a representation of the
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A convenient reformulation of the law mixes conductivity and resistivity:
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Kivelson, Steven; Lee, Dung-Hai & Zhang, Shou-Cheng (July 1992).
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also appear: Hall phase transitions (in a single layer) exhibit a
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Burgess, C. P.; Dib, Rim; Dolan, Brian P. (2000-12-15).
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describe the macroscopic conductivity in directions
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Index

condensed matter physics
quantum Hall effect
anisotropic
isotropic
macroscopic conductivity tensor
semicircle
mixture
free electron gas
hole
mean-field
resistivity
Hall divisor
modular group
conserved current
number theory
selection rule
Farey sequence
Farey diagrams
striped
aligned with
perpendicular to


"Theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect: The two-phase model"
Bibcode
1994PhRvB..50.2369D
doi
10.1103/physrevb.50.2369
ISSN
0163-1829

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