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Incompressible Quantum Hall fluids as Electric Quadrupole fluids

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2023-06-23 v5

Abstract

A new picture of both integer and fractional incompressible quantum Hall fluids as fluids carrying a electric quadrupole is introduced. This clarifies their geometric properties, provides a generic expression for Hall viscosity, and allows removal of the ingredient of continuous rotational symmetry (absent when electrons move in a crystalline background) from their description.

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@article{arxiv.2302.12472,
  title  = {Incompressible Quantum Hall fluids as Electric Quadrupole fluids},
  author = {F. D. M. Haldane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12472},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures; v2 adds a clarification to Eq. 3 and a new ref [25] to Yutushui and Mross; v3. add a ref [26] to Antonic et al.plus reworked abstract; v4. improvements, clarifications, and further references added in response to referee commments; v5. fix typo in formula in text after Eqn. 4 (missing factor of 1/2 (D -> (1/2)D)

R2 v1 2026-06-28T08:48:34.580Z