(Received
31 July 2001; published 29 July 2002)
Usingheuristic
arguments and numerical simulations it is argued that thecritical
exponent
describing the localization length divergence at the integer
quantum-Hall transition is modified in the presence of spin-orbit scattering
with short-range correlations. The exponent is very close to
=
4/3, the percolation correlation length exponent, consistent with the
prediction of a
semiclassical argument. In addition, a band of weakly localized
states is conjectured. ©2002 The American Physical Society
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