Towards a field theory of fractional quantum Hall states

被引:143
作者
Shankar, R
Murthy, G
机构
[1] JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV, DEPT PHYS & ASTRON, BALTIMORE, MD 21218 USA
[2] BOSTON UNIV, DEPT PHYS, BOSTON, MA 02215 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4437
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present a Chern-Simons theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect in which flux attachment is followed by a transformation that effectively attaches the correlation holes. We extract the correlated wave functions, compute the drift and cyclotron currents (due to inhomogeneous density), exhibit the Read operator and operators that create quasiparticles and quasiholes. We show how the bare kinetic energy can get quenched and replaced by one due to interactions. We find that for nu = 1/2 the low energy theory has neutral quasiparticles and give the effective Hamiltonian and constraints.
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页码:4437 / 4440
页数:4
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