Bulk effective theory in coupled wire construction from generalized Wilson line
Abstract
We reconsider the coupled wire construction, which is a useful method of obtaining two and three-dimensional topologically ordered states from an array of one-dimensional CFTs, and show that there is the hidden structure in the bulk of the constructed model. In order to uncover the structure hidden in the gapped bulk, we introduce a generalized Wilson line and show the necessity of introducing a new gauge field, which behaves like the Chern-Simons gauge field. From these examination, it is possible to show that in this formulation the bulk theory is the U(1) Chern-Simons gauge theory and the edge theory is the chiral Luttinger theory. We explicitly demonstrate our method for the Laughlin states and the chiral spin liquid state.
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@article{arxiv.1605.09235,
title = {Bulk effective theory in coupled wire construction from generalized Wilson line},
author = {Yukihisa Imamura and Keisuke Totsuka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09235},
year = {2016}
}
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9 pages, 3 figures