Composite Fermions in a Long-Range Random Magnetic Field: Quantum Hall Effect versus Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations

We study transport in a smooth random magnetic field, with emphasis on composite fermions (CFs) near half-filling of the Landau level. When either the amplitude of the magnetic field fluctuations or its mean value B̄ is large enough, the transport is percolating in nature. While at B̄0ex0ex=0ex0ex0 the percolation enhances the conductivity σₓₓ, increasing B̄ leads to a sharp falloff of σₓₓ and, consequently, to the quantum localization of CFs. We show that the localization is a crucial factor in the interplay between the Shubnikov--de Haas and quantum Hall oscillations and that the latter are dominant in the CF metal.