NON-ABELIAN STATISTICS IN THE FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL STATES

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WEN, XG
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[1] School of Natural Sciences, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.802
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The fractional quantum Hall states with non-Abelian statistics are studied. Those states are shown to be characterized by non-Abelian topological orders and are identified with some of the Jain states. The gapless edge states are found to be described by non-Abelian Kac-Moody algebras. It is argued that the topological orders and the associated properties are robust against any kind of small perturbations.
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