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The quantum Hall liquid is a novel state of matter with profound emergent properties such as fractional charge and statistics. Existence of the quantum Hall effect requires breaking of the time reversal symmetry caused by an external…
It is shown that the models of 2D Liouville Gravity, 2D Black Hole- and $R^2$-Gravity are {\em embedded} in the Katanaev-Volovich model of 2D NonEinsteinian Gravity. Different approaches to the formulation of a quantum theory for the above…
We study space-time resolved densities of particle-hole pairs produced by an external time-dependent field acting on non-interacting non-relativistic particles. It is shown that, at least in some cases, the densities are not affected by…
Recent experimental progress in the creation of synthetic electric and magnetic fields, acting on cold atoms in a two-dimensional lattice, has attracted renewed interest to the problem of a quantum particle in the Hall configuration. The…
The Spinning Particle Model for anyon is analysed in the Batalin-Tyutin scheme of quantisation in extended phase space. Here additional degrees of freedom are introduced in the phase space such that all the constraints in the theory are…
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Previously we have demonstrated that, on a torus, the abelian quantum hall liquid is adiabatically connected to a charge density wave as the smaller dimension of the torus is varied. In this work we extend this result to the non-abelian…