A different view of the quantum Hall plateau-to-plateau transitions

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

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