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The results of a study of the magnetic-field-induced quantum Hall liquid-insulator transition and the plateau-to-plateau transition in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas in an HgTe quantum well are reported. The applicability of the universal scaling models (such as the universal critical exponent description and the semicircle model) for the description of these transitions is analyzed. It is shown that neither of these descriptions is completely adequate for the system under study.
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Olshanetsky, E.B., Sassine, S., Kvon, Z.D. et al. Quantum Hall liquid-insulator and plateau-to-plateau transitions in a high mobility 2D electron gas in an HgTe quantum well. Jetp Lett. 84, 565–569 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364006220085
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