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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

We present an effective Chern-Simons theory for the bulk fully polarized fractional quantum Hall (FQH) hierarchical states constructed as daughters of general states of the Jain series, {\it i. e.} as FQH states of the quasi-particles or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ana Lopez , Eduardo Fradkin

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are strongly interacting electron systems with topological order. These systems are characterized by novel ground states, fractionally charged and neutral excitations. The neutral excitations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Ammar Kirmani , Benedikt Fauseweh , Jian-Xin Zhu

Quasielectrons and quasiholes in the fractional quantum Hall liquids obey fractional (including nontrivial mutual) exclusion statistics. Their statistics matrix can be determined from several possible state-counting scheme, involving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Y. S. Wu , Y. Yu , Y. Hatsugai , M. Kohmoto

Herein, we introduce the framework of gauge invariant variables to describe fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states, and prove that the wavefunction can always be represented by a unique holomorphic multi-variable complex function. As a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-04 YingKang Chen , Rudro R. Biswas

The low-energy effective quantum field theory of the edge excitations of a fully-gapped bulk topological phase corresponding to a local interaction Hamiltonian must be local and unitary. Here it is shown that whenever all the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 N. Read

We present a 6D generalization of the fractional quantum Hall effect involving membranes coupled to a three-form potential in the presence of a large background four-form flux. The low energy physics is governed by a bulk 7D topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Jonathan J. Heckman , Luigi Tizzano

According to Wen's theory, a universal behavior of the fractional quantum Hall edge is expected at sufficiently low energies, where the dispersion of the elementary edge excitation is linear. A microscopic calculation shows that the actual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-07 Shivakumar Jolad , Diptiman Sen , Jainendra K. Jain

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-26 Andrey Gromov , Gil Young Cho , Yizhi You , Alexander G. Abanov , Eduardo Fradkin

Charge excitations in a two dimensional electron gas, under a quantizing magnetic field and in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime, flow in one dimensional-like strips along the edges of the sample. These excitations (quasiparticles)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-25 Moty Heiblum

A fractional quantization in a two dimensional space is proposed. The angular momenta of the two dimensional electrons are quantized in fractional numbers by the boundary conditions on a multi-layered Riemann surface. Extended wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyeong Rag Lee

There is convincing numerical evidence that fractional quantum Hall (FQH)-like ground states arise in fractionally filled Chern bands (FCB). Here we show that the Hamiltonian theory of Composite Fermions (CF) can be as useful in describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

The scope of this Ph.D thesis is to study the effects of the presence of a boundary from a Quantum Field Theoretical perspective, searching for new physics and explanations of observed phenomena. In particular, thanks to the formal QFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Erica Bertolini

Low-energy transport measurements in Quantum Hall systems have been argued to be governed by emergent modular symmetries whose predictions are robust against many of the detailed microscopic dynamics. We propose the recently-observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. P. Burgess , B. P. Dolan

The Kohn-Sham density functional method for the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect has recently been developed by mapping the strongly interacting electrons into an auxiliary system of weakly interacting composite fermions (CFs) that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-04 Yi Yang , Songyang Pu , Yayun Hu , Zi-Xiang Hu

This letter explores the relationship between the coastal Kelvin mode observed in the shallow water model of ocean waves and the edge mode of a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state. The hydrodynamic equations for the FQH state can be written…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-30 Gustavo M. Monteiro , Sriram Ganeshan

Hall viscosity, also known as the Lorentz shear modulus, has been proposed as a topological property of a quantum Hall fluid. Using a recent formulation of the composite fermion theory on the torus, we evaluate the Hall viscosities for a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-15 Songyang Pu , Mikael Fremling , J. K. Jain

Quantum Hall effects provide intuitive ways of revealing the topology in crystals, i.e., each quantized "step" represents a distinct topological state. Here, we seek a counterpart for "visualizing" quantum geometry, which is a broader…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 B. Q. Song , J. D. H. Smith , T. Jiang , Y. X. Yao , J. Wang

We consider the fractal characteristic of the quantum mechanical paths and we obtain for any universal class of fractons labeled by the Hausdorff dimension defined within the interval 1$ $$ < $$ $$h$$ $$ <$$ $$ 2$, a fractal distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wellington da Cruz

In this paper, the key ideas of characterizing universality classes of dissipation-free (incompressible) quantum Hall fluids by mathematical objects called quantum Hall lattices are reviewed. Many general theorems about the classification…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Froehlich , U. M. Studer , E. Thiran