{
  "id": "cond-mat/9809286",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-09-22T05:07:13.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-09-22T05:07:13.000Z",
  "title": "The transverse magnetoresistance of the two-dimensional chiral metal",
  "authors": [
    "J. T. Chalker",
    "S. L. Sondhi"
  ],
  "comment": "submitted to Phys Rev B",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 59, 4999 (1999)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.59.4999",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We consider the two-dimensional chiral metal, which exists at the surface of a layered, three-dimensional sample exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect. We calculate its magnetoresistance in response to a component of magnetic field perpendicular to the sample surface, in the low temperature, but macroscopic, regime where inelastic scattering may be neglected. The magnetoresistance is positive, following a Drude form with a field scale, $B_0=\\Phi_0/al_{\\text{el}}$, given by the transverse field strength at which one quantum of flux, $\\Phi_0$, passes through a rectangle with sides set by the layer-spacing, $a$, and the elastic mean free path, $l_{\\text{el}}$. Experimental measurement of this magnetoresistance may therefore provide a direct determination of the elastic mean free path in the chiral metal.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-09-22T05:07:13.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "two-dimensional chiral metal",
      "transverse magnetoresistance",
      "elastic mean free path",
      "integer quantum hall effect",
      "transverse field strength"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}