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Effects of Quantum Hall Edge Reconstruction on Momenum-Resolved Tunneling
During the reconstruction of the edge of a quantum Hall liquid, Coulomb
interaction energy is lowered through the change in the structure of the edge.
We use theory developed earlier by one of the authors [K. Yang, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 91, 036802 (2003)] to calculate the electron spectral functions of a
reconstructed edge, and study the consequences of the edge reconstruction for
the momentum-resolved tunneling into the edge. It is found that additional
excitation modes that appear after the reconstruction produce distinct features
in the energy and momentum dependence of the spectral function, which can be
used to detect the presence of edge reconstruction
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