Current Percolation in Medium with Boundaries under Quantum Hall Effect Conditions.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Condensed Matter Physics Volume 2012, Article ID 832925, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/832925 Research Article Current Percolation in Medium with Boundaries under Quantum Hall Effect Conditions M. U. Malakeeva1 and V. E. Arkhincheev2 1 Department of Physics and Mathematics, Zabaikalskii State Human Pedagogic University, Chita 681, Russia 2 Buryat Science Center, SB RAS, Ulan-Ude 670047, Russia Correspondence should be addressed to V. E. Arkhincheev, varkhin@mail.ru Received 12 October 2011; Accepted 30 November 2011 Academic Editor: Mohindar S. Seehra Copyright © 2012 M. U. Malakeeva and V. E. Arkhincheev. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The current percolation has been considered in the medium with boundaries under quantum Hall effect conditions. It has been shown that in that case the effective Hall conductivity has a nonzero value due to percolation of the Hall current through the finite number of singular points (in our model these are corners at the phase joints). 1. Introduction from initial one only in rearrangement of phases, while the geometrical location of phases remains the same.) One of the basic issues of the study of current percolation However, the same reasoning is not applicable to a study in the heterogeneous medium is the problem to evaluate the of the effective Hall conductivity in the heterogeneous two- effective conductivity σe . It is determined as an aspect ratio dimensional system under conditions of the quantum Hall