Effects of electron-electron interactions on the integer quantum Hall transitions

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Lee, DH [1 ]
Wang, ZQ [1 ]
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[1] BOSTON UNIV,DEPT PHYS,BOSTON,MA 02215
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4014
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We study the effects of the electron-electron interaction on the critical properties of the plateau transitions in the integer quantum Hall effect. We find the renormalization group dimension associated with short-range interactions to be -0.66 +/- 0.04. Thus the noninteracting fixed point (characterized z = 2 and v approximate to 2.3) is stable. For the Coulomb interaction, we find the correlation effect is a marginal perturbation at a Hartree-Fock fixed point (z = 1, v approximate to 2.3) by dimension counting. Further calculations are needed to determine its stability upon loop corrections.
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