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Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1062–1065 (1998)

Continuum of Chiral Luttinger Liquids at the Fractional Quantum Hall Edge

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M. Grayson1, D. C. Tsui1, L. N. Pfeiffer2, K. W. West2, and A. M. Chang2
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
2Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974-0636

Received 25 August 1997; published in the issue dated 2 February 1998

We study current versus voltage (I-V) when tunneling into the edge of the fractional quantum Hall effect over a continuum of filling factors (ν) from 1/4 to 1. Our devices manifest the power law I-V behavior previously observed by Chang et al. at discrete fillings, but now with as many as six decades in current and over the whole range of filling factor suggesting the existence of a continuum of chiral Luttinger liquids. Surprisingly the exponent behaves approximately as 1/ν and does not exhibit the strong plateau features predicted in recent theoretical works based on the intermixing of copropagating and counterpropagating multiple edge modes.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1062
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1062
PACS:
73.40.Hm, 71.10.Pm, 72.20.My