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Quantum Hall effect and Quillen metric

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-02-02 v4 Strongly Correlated Electrons Complex Variables Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study the generating functional, the adiabatic curvature and the adiabatic phase for the integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) on a compact Riemann surface. For the generating functional we derive its asymptotic expansion for the large flux of the magnetic field, i.e., for the large degree kk of the positive Hermitian line bundle LkL^k. The expansion consists of the anomalous and exact terms. The anomalous terms are the leading terms of the expansion. This part is responsible for the quantization of the adiabatic transport coefficients in QHE. We then identify the non-local (anomalous) part of the expansion with the Quillen metric on the determinant line bundle, and the subleading exact part with the asymptotics of the regularized spectral determinant of the Laplacian for the line bundle LkL^k, at large kk. Finally, we show how the generating functional of the integer QHE is related to the gauge and gravitational (2+1)d Chern-Simons functionals. We observe the relation between the Bismut-Gillet-Soul\'e curvature formula for the Quillen metric and the adiabatic curvature for the electromagnetic and geometric adiabatic transport of the integer Quantum Hall state. Then we relate the adiabatic phase in QHE to the eta invariant and show that the geometric part of the adiabatic phase is given by the Chern-Simons functional.

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@article{arxiv.1510.06720,
  title  = {Quantum Hall effect and Quillen metric},
  author = {Semyon Klevtsov and Xiaonan Ma and George Marinescu and Paul Wiegmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06720},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

36 pages, v4: greatly expanded version, added: references, Sec. 1.1 and Appendix A with background material, examples in Sec. 2.3 and Sec. 4, Thm. 3 and Sec. 5 expanded with more details on the relation between the adiabatic phase, eta invariant and Chern-Simons functional. To appear in Commun. Math. Phys

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