In this work we report on experiments performed on smooth edge-narrow Hall bars. The magneto-transport properties of intermediate mobility two-dimensional electron systems are investigated and analyzed within the screening theory of the integer quantized Hall effect. We observe a non-monotonic increase of Hall resistance at the low magnetic field ends of the quantized plateaus, known as the overshoot effect. Unexpectedly, for Hall bars that are defined by shallow chemical etching the overshoot effect becomes more pronounced at elevated temperatures. We observe the overshoot effect at odd and even integer plateaus, which favor a spin independent explanation, in contrast to discussion in the literature. In a second set of the experiments, we investigate the overshoot effect in gate defined Hall bar and explicitly show that the amplitude of the overshoot effect can be directly controlled by gate voltages. We offer a comprehensive explanation based on scattering between evanescent incompressible channels.T he overwhelming interest to utilize quantum mechanics in applied technologies finds one of its first manifestations in the integer quantized Hall effect (IQHE) 1 . The magnetic field dependence of the transport coefficients of a two dimensional electron system (2DES) provides a possibility to standardize resistance in units of the von Klitzing constant h/e 2 , where h is the Planck constant and e is the elementary charge. However, an unexpected non-monotonic magnetic field dependence of the Hall resistance at the low-field-end of the quantized plateaus, known as the overshoot effect, remains a puzzle despite of both theoretical and experimental efforts in various material systems including GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure 2-6 as well as Si/SiGe 7-13 and Si metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors 14 . The utilization of the quantized Hall effect as a resistance standard is hindered by such anomalies, especially because their physical mechanism is not well understood. The overshoot effect is observed in these material systems at various filling factors n, defined by the number of occupied quantized (spin resolved) Landau levels (LL) below the Fermi energy. The effect has already been observed in the 1980's, where its physical mechanism was attributed to non-ideal contacts 2-4 , but without providing clear evidence for this hypothesis. Later, the overshoot effect was attributed to the decoupling of the spin-split states within the same LL at odd filling factors by Richter and Wheeler 5 , or, alternatively by the scattering between edge states together with spin-orbit interaction by Komiyama and Nii 6 . Recently, the overshoot effect has been investigated in Si/SiGe heterostructures as a function of current and temperature 12 . These experimental results have been elegantly explained within the screening theory of the integer quantized Hall effect, which explicitly takes into account the direct Coulomb interaction between charge carriers. In this approach the overshoot effect is described using co-existing (curr...

Since the experimental realization of the integer quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system, the interrelation between the conductance quantization and the topological properties of the system has been investigated. Assuming that the two-dimensional electron system is described by a Bloch Hamiltonian, system is insulating in the bulk of sample throughout the quantum Hall plateau due to a magnetic field induced energy gap. Meanwhile, the system is conducting at the edges resembling a 2+1 dimensional topological insulator without time-reversal symmetry. Here, by our magneto-transport measurements performed on GaAs/AlGaAs high purity Hall bars with two inner contacts we show that incompressible strips formed at the edges result in Hall quantization, even if the bulk is compressible. Consequently, the relationship between the quantum Hall effect and topological bulk insulator breaks for specific field intervals within the plateaus. The measurement of conducting bulk, strongly challenges all existing single-particle theories.

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In this work we investigate an unusual transport phenomenon observed in two-dimensional electron gas under integer quantum Hall effect conditions. Our calculations are based on the screening theory, using a semi-analytical model. The transport anomalies are dip and overshoot effects, where the Hall resistance decreases (or increases) unexpectedly at the quantized resistance plateaus intervals. We report on our numerical findings of the dip effect in the Hall resistance, considering GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures in which we investigated the effect under different experimental conditions. We show that, similar to overshoot, the amplitude of the dip effect is strongly influenced by the edge reconstruction due to electrostatics. It is observed that the steep potential variation close to the physical boundaries of the sample results in narrower incompressible strips, hence, the experimental observation of the dip effect is limited by the properties of these current carrying strips. By performing standard Hall resistance measurements on gate defined narrow samples, we demonstrate that the predictions of the screening theory is in well agreement with our experimental findings. PACS. 73.43.-f Quantum Hall effect -73.43.Cd Theory and modeling -73.43.Fj Novel experimental methods; measurements

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