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Framing Anomaly in the Effective Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-03-26 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider the geometric part of the effective action for Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). It is shown that accounting for the framing anomaly of the quantum Chern-Simons theory is essential to the obtain correct gravitational linear response functions. In the lowest order in gradients the linear response generating functional includes Chern-Simons, Wen-Zee and gravitational Chern- Simons terms. The latter term has a contribution from the framing anomaly which fixes the value of thermal Hall conductivity and contributes to the Hall viscosity of the FQH states on a sphere. We also discuss the effects of the framing anomaly on linear responses for non-Abelian FQH states.

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@article{arxiv.1410.6812,
  title  = {Framing Anomaly in the Effective Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect},
  author = {Andrey Gromov and Gil Young Cho and Yizhi You and Alexander G. Abanov and Eduardo Fradkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6812},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, v3 contains the Erratum on the value of the orbital spin variance