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The effect of inter-edge Coulomb interactions on the transport between quantum Hall edge states K. Moon Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 S. M. Girvin Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (February 6, 2008) peratures, there is an additional discrepancy in that the 5 In a recent experiment, Milliken et al. demonstrated pos- tunneling conductance falls below the theoretical predic- 9 sible evidence for a Luttinger liquid through measurements of tions. 9 the tunneling conductance between edge states in the ν = 1/3 Recently, Oreg and Finkel’stein [10] have considered 1 quantum Hall plateau. However, at low temperatures, a dis- the effect of the inter-edge Coulomb interaction on the crepancy exists between the theoretical predictions based on v propagation of the edge modes in samples with constric- o Luttinger liquid theory and experiment. We consider the tions. possibility that this is due to long-range Coulomb interac- N tions which become dominant at low temperatures. Using In this paper, we study the effects of residual long- 2 renormalization group methods, we calculate the cross-over range Coulomb interactions on the transport properties behaviour from Luttinger liquid to the Coulomb interaction of a Luttinger liquid us