Selective Population and Detection of Edge Channels in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Transport in the fractional-quantum-Hall-effect (FQHE) regime is studied in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) employing adjustable barriers as current and voltage probes. We find a fractionally quantized Hall conductance for integer filling factor in the bulk of the 2DEG, as a consequence of the fractional filling factor in the probes. We argue that this effect is the first manifestation of adiabatic transport in the FQHE. The results are in agreement with a proposed Landauer-Büttiker formula in which each fractional edge channel contributes a conductance ⅓e2/h.