Quantum Hall ice
Quantum Hall ice
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.90.241102
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发表时间:
2014-12-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Batista, Cristian D.
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作者:
Chern, Gia-Wei;Rahmani, Armin;Batista, Cristian D.
We show that the chiral kagome ice manifold exhibits an anomalous integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) when coupled to itinerant electrons. Although electron-mediated interactions select a magnetically ordered ground state, the full ice manifold can coexist with the IQHE over a range of finite temperatures. The degenerate ice states provide a natural realization of power-law correlated flux disorder, for which the spectral gap of the system remains robust. The quantized (up to exponentially small finite-temperature corrections) Hall conductance persists over a wide range of electron densities due to the disorder-induced localization of electronic states.