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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 491-496Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS4010
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- Minerva Foundation [711752]
- German Israeli Foundation (GIF) [I-1241- 303.10/2014]
- European Research Council under the European Community [339070]
- DFG [RO 2247/8-1, CRC183]
- Minerva Foundation
- Russia-Israel IMOS project
- Azrieli Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) [339070] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The nature of edge reconstruction in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) and the issue of where the current flows have been debated for years. Moreover, the recent observation of proliferation of 'upstream' neutral modes in the fractional QHE has raised doubts about the present models of edge channels. Here, we present a new picture of the edge reconstruction in two of the hole-conjugate states. For example, while the present model for nu = (2/3) consists of a single downstream chiral charge channel with conductance (2/3)(e(2)/h) and an upstream neutral mode, we show that the current is carried by two separate downstream chiral edge channels, each with conductance (1/3)(e(2)/h). We uncover a novel mechanism of fragmentation of upstream neutral modes into downstream propagating charge modes that induces current fluctuations with zero net current. Our unexpected results underline the need for better understanding of edge reconstruction and energy transport in all fractional QHE states.
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