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Published on: June 3, 2015
Particle-hole symmetric Luttinger liquids in a quantum Hall circuit
Stefano Roddaro1, Vittorio Pellegrini, Fabio Beltram
1NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
Abstract:
We report current transmission data through a split-gate constriction fabricated onto a two-dimensional electron system in the integer quantum Hall (QH) regime. Split-gate biasing drives interedge backscattering and is shown to lead to suppressed or enhanced transmission, in marked contrast to the expected linear Fermi-liquid behavior. This evolution is described in terms of particle-hole symmetry and allows us to conclude that an unexpected class of gate-controlled particle-hole-symmetric chiral Luttinger liquids (CLLs) can exist at the edges of our QH circuit. These results highlight the role of particle-hole symmetry on the properties of CLL edge states.
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