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arxiv: 1212.3617 · v2 · pith:BZQWQVIWnew · submitted 2012-12-14 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.str-el

Quantum Hall ice

classification ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
keywords halliqhemanifoldquantumrangestatesalthoughanomalous
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We show that the chiral kagome ice manifold exhibits an anomalous integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) when coupled to itinerant electrons. Although electron-mediated interactions select a magnetically ordered ground state, the full ice manifold can coexist with the IQHE over a range of finite temperatures. The degenerate ice states provide a natural realization of power-law correlated flux disorder, for which the spectral gap of the system remains robust. The quantized (up to exponentially small finite-temperature corrections) Hall conductance persists over a wide range of electron densities due to the disorder-induced localization of electronic states.

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