Jack on a Devil's staircase
Abstract
We review a simple mechanism for the formation of plateaux in the fractional quantum Hall effect. It arises from a map of the microscopic Hamiltonian in the thin torus limit to a lattice gas model, solved by Hubbard. The map suggests a Devil's staircase pattern, and explains the observed asymmetries in the widths. Each plateau is a new ground state of the system: a periodic Slater state in the thin torus limit. We provide the unitary operator that maps such limit states to the full, effective ground states with same filling fraction. These Jack polynomials generalise Laughlin's ansatz, and are exact eigenstates of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Why are Jacks sitting on the Devil's staircase? This is yet an intriguing problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.07860,
title = {Jack on a Devil's staircase},
author = {Andrea Di Gioacchino and Marco Gherardi and Luca Guido Molinari and Pietro Rotondo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07860},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Based on a talk given at the congress of the Department of Physics (2017), Universit\`a degli studi di Milano