Novel Finite Temperature Conductivity in Quantum Hall Systems

Abstract

We study quantum Hall systems (mainly the integer case) at finite temperatures and show that there is a novel temperature dependence even for a pure system, thanks to the `anomalous' nature of generators of translation. The deviation of Hall conductivity from its zero temperature value is controlled by a parameter $T_0=\pi \rho /m^{\ast }N$ which is sample specific and hence the universality of quantization is lost at finite temperatures.

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