On the low-field insulator-quantum Hall conductor transitions
arXiv:cond-mat/0503306 · doi:10.1016/j.physe.2003.11.258
Abstract
We studied the insulator-quantum Hall conductor transition which separates the low-field insulator from the quantum Hall state of the filling factor $ν=4$ on a gated two-dimensional GaAs electron system containing self-assembled InAs quantum dots. To enter the $ν=4$ quantum Hall state directly from the low-field insulator, the two-dimensional system undergoes a crossover from the low-field localization to Landau quantization. The crossover, in fact, covers a wide range with respect to the magnetic field rather than only a small region near the critical point of the insulator-quantum Hall conductor transition.
Our experimental results are inconsistent with Huckestein's argument [PRL 84, 3141 (2000)]