A different view of the quantum Hall plateau-to-plateau transitions
arXiv:cond-mat/9611011 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.479
Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally that the transitions between adjacent integer quantum Hall (QH) states are equivalent to a QH-to-insulator transition occurring in the top Landau level, in the presence of an inert background of the other completely filled Landau levels, each contributing a single unit of quantum conductance, $e^{2}/h$, to the total Hall conductance of the system.
10 pages, 4 figures, Revtex 3.0