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Fractional quantum numbers via complex orbifolds

Algebraic Geometry 2019-10-21 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

This paper studies both the conductance and charge transport on 2D orbifolds in a strong magnetic field. We consider a family of Landau Hamiltonians on a complex, compact 2D orbifold YY that are parametrised by the Jacobian torus J(Y)J(Y) of YY. We calculate the degree of the associated stable holomorphic spectral orbibundles when the magnetic field BB is large, and obtain fractional quantum numbers as the conductance and a refined analysis also gives the charge transport. A key tool studied here is a nontrivial generalisation of the Nahm transform to 2D orbifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1811.11748,
  title  = {Fractional quantum numbers via complex orbifolds},
  author = {Varghese Mathai and Graeme Wilkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11748},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pp, Lett. Math. Phys. (to appear)

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