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The fractional quantum hall effect (FQHE) is a milestone of modern day physics, its disovery paved the way for the study of fractional charges which do not obey abelian physics. However, all FQHE require an external magnetic field in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Christopher Sims

We study field theories defined in regions of the spatial non-commutative (NC) plane with a boundary present delimiting them, concentrating in particular on the U(1) NC Chern-Simons theory on the upper half plane. We find that classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Adrián R. Lugo

Making use of refermionization techniques, we map the nonlinear chiral Luttinger liquid model of the edge modes of a spatially confined fractional quantum Hall cloud developed in our recent work [Phys. Rev. A 107, 033320 (2023)] onto a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Alberto Nardin , Iacopo Carusotto

The effective field theory of the fractional quantum Hall edge is reformulated from microscopic dynamics. Noncommutative Chern-Simons theory is a microscopic description for the quantum Hall fluid. We use it for reference. Considering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-24 Wei Huang , Zhao-Long Wang , Mu-Lin Yan

Despite the success of Landau-level theory and edge-state transport formalisms, a direct microscopic link between bulk quantization and the observed hierarchy of quantum Hall plateaus has not been established. In particular, no unified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Pedro Pereyra

We construct effective $\mathrm{U}(2)$ Chern-Simons-Ginzburg-Landau theories for Abelian and non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall hierarchies for those which had previously been described only through categorical data or trial wavefunctions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Taegon Lee , Gil Young Cho , Donghae Seo

One approach to analyzing entanglement in a gauge theory is embedding it into a factorized theory with edge modes on the entangling boundary. For topological quantum field theories (TQFT), this naturally leads to factorizing a TQFT by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Thomas G. Mertens , Qi-Feng Wu

The Hamiltonian Theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect is an operator description that subsumes many properties of Composite Fermions, applies to gapped and gapless cases, and has been found to provide results in quantitative accord…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

Using a well known singular gauge transformation, certain fractional quantized Hall states can be modeled as integer quantized Hall states of transformed fermions interacting with a Chern-Simons field. In previous work we have calculated…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Steven H. Simon , Bertrand I. Halperin

A gauge invariant quantum field theory with a spacetime dependent Chern-Simons coefficient is studied. Using a constraint formalism together with the Schwinger action principle it is shown that non-zero gradients in the coefficient induce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Burgess

A quantum hydrodynamic model is used to study the edge modes of chiral Berry plasmons. The transcendental equation of the dispersion relation is solved nonlinearly and semi-analytically. We predict a new one-way chiral edge state with the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-12 Ya Zhang , Feng Zhai , Bin Guo , Lin Yi , Wei Jiang

We develop a Fermionic Chern-Simons (CS) theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect in monolayer graphene with SU(4) symmetry, arising from the spin and the valley degrees of freedom, which involves four distinct CS gauge fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Sanhita Modak , Sudhansu S. Mandal , K. Sengupta

Gapped fermion theories with gapless boundary fermions can exist in any number of dimensions. When the boundary has even space-time dimensions and hosts chiral fermions, a quantum Hall current flows from the bulk to the boundary in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Srimoyee Sen , Semeon Valgushev

Electrons in moir\'e flat band systems can spontaneously break time reversal symmetry, giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. Here we use a superconducting quantum interference device to image stray magnetic fields in one such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 C. L. Tschirhart , M. Serlin , H. Polshyn , A. Shragai , Z. Xia , J. Zhu , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. E. Huber , A. F. Young

We revisit the $\theta$ dependence in $CP^{N-1}$ model with large $N$. We study the consequences of a recently discovered new ingredient of the instanton vacuum, i.e. the massless chiral edge excitations. Contrary to the previous believes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. M. Pruisken , M. A. Baranov , M. Voropaev

We show the explicit connection between two distinct and complementary approaches to the fractional quantum Hall system (FQHS): the quantum wires formalism and the topological low-energy effective description given in terms of an Abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-05 Weslei B. Fontana , Pedro R. S. Gomes , Carlos A. Hernaski

Over the past few years one of us (Murthy) in collaboration with R. Shankar has developed an extended Hamiltonian formalism capable of describing the ground state and low energy excitations in the fractional quantum Hall regime. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hoang K. Nguyen , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Ganpathy Murthy

It is shown, that a spectrum generating algebras and wave functions for the integral and fractional quantum Hall effect are related by the non-unitary similarity transformation. This transformation corresponds to the introduction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Eliashvili

We present a mean field theory of composite fermion edge channel transport in the fractional and integer quantum Hall regimes. An expression relating the electro-chemical potentials of composite fermions at the edges of a sample to those of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 George Kirczenow , Brad L. Johnson

Mechanism of the particle-flux separation in the Chern-Simons gauge theory coupled with nonrelativistic fermions is studied in a nonperturbative method. This problem is very important for the composite fermion approach to the fractional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Ichinose , T. Matsui