Two-terminal conductance of a fractional quantum Hall edge
V. V. Ponomarenko, D. V. Averin
Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY, NY 11794, USA
PACS: 71.10.Pm, 73.23.Ad, 73.43.Jn
Abstract
We have found solution to a model of tunneling between a
multi-channel Fermi liqiud reservoir and an edge of the principal
fractional quantum Hall liquid (FQHL) in the strong coupling limit. The solution
explains how the chiral edge propagation makes the universal two-terminal
conductance of the FQHL fractionally quantized and different from that of a
1D Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid wire, where a similar model but preserving the
time reversal symmetry predicts unsuppressed free-electron conductance.