A solvable model of Landau quantization breakdown

Thierry Champel () and Serge Florens
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Thierry Champel: Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPMMC
Serge Florens: Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Institut Néel

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2019, vol. 92, issue 6, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Physics of two-dimensional (2D) electron gases under perpendicular magnetic field often displays three distinct stages when increasing the field amplitude: a low field regime with classical magnetotransport, followed at intermediate field by a Shubnikov–de Haas phase where the transport coefficients present quantum oscillations, and, ultimately, the emergence at high field of the quantum Hall effect with perfect quantization of the Hall resistance. A rigorous demonstration of this general paradigm is still limited by the difficulty in solving models of quantum Hall bars with macroscopic lateral dimensions and smooth disorder. We propose here the exact solution of a simple model exhibiting similarly two sharp transitions that are triggered by the competition of cyclotron motion and potential-induced drift. As a function of increasing magnetic field, one observes indeed three distinct phases showing respectively fully broken, partially smeared, or perfect Landau level quantization. This model is based on a non-rotationally invariant, inverted 2D harmonic potential, from which a full quantum solution is obtained using 4D phase space quantization. The developed formalism unifies all three possible regimes under a single analytical theory, as well as arbitrary quadratic potentials, for all magnetic field values. Graphical abstract

Keywords: Mesoscopic; and; Nanoscale; Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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