Fallacies in the understanding of the quenching of the Hall effect. II

Abstract

A threshold magnetic field, Bthres, at which the skipping orbits begin to be formed, is obtained and an inequality between Bthres and Bcrit, up to which the Hall effect remains quenched, is produced. It is shown that Bthres can at best be lower bound for B crit. This renders untenable suggestions that the quenching phenomenon could be related to the skipping orbits. The quenching, thus, has neither a classical nor a semi-classical origin-it is a quantum mechanical phenomena with a mechanism suggested by one of the authors.