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We study Chern-Simons (CS) superconductivity in the presence of uniform external magnetic field of {\it arbitrary strength} for a system of fermions in two spatial dimensions, which are minimally coupled both to the CS and Maxwell gauge…
We study fermions in a magnetic field in a finite size cylinder. With the boundary condition for the fermion flux, we show that the energy spectra and the wave-functions are modified by the finite size effect; the boundary makes the…
The electrodynamics supplemented with a Chern-Simons (CS) action (Carrol-Field-Jackiw electrodynamics) in a half space is studied. The passage of photons and/or massive vector mesons through a boundary between the CS medium and the vacuum…
Spontaneous magnetization in the Maxwell QED$_{2+1}$ at finite fermion density is studied. It is shown that at low fermion densities the one-loop free energy has its minimum at some nonvanishing value of the magnetic field. The…
A realistic magnetic dipole has complex effects on a charged particle near the entrance and exit of the magnet, even with a constant and uniform magnetic field deep within the interior of the magnet. To satisfy Maxwell's equations, the…
The paper investigates the influence of the magnetic field on the behavior of 180-degree domain boundaries in a uniaxial ferromagnetic film with inhomogeneous magnetoelectric interaction. It is shown that, depending on the magnitude and…
We identify a class of 2+1 dimensional models, involving multiple Chern-Simons gauge fields, in which a form of classical confinement occurs. This confinement is not cumulative, but allows finite mass combinations of individually confined…
We report on a study of the phonon-mediated frictional drag between two-dimensional electron layers at the Landau level filling factor $\nu=1/2$ predicted by Chern-Simons composite-fermion theory. Frictional drag between widely spaced…
Here we understand \textit{dimensional reduction} as a procedure to obtain an effective model in $D-1$ dimensions that is related to the original model in $D$ dimensions. To explore this concept we use both a self-interacting fermionic…
We present a quantum Hall effect of magnons in two-dimensional clean insulating magnets at finite temperature. Through the Aharonov-Casher effect, a magnon moving in an electric field acquires a geometric phase and forms Landau levels in an…
We study the effect of free boundaries in finite magnetic systems of cubic shape on the field and temperature dependence of the magnetization within the isotropic model of D-component spin vectors in the limit D \to \infty. This model is…
This work investigates the boundary and defect effects on the modular data in SU$(N)_k$ Chern-Simons theories, focusing on how different boundary conditions and symmetry defects modify the fusion rules and braiding statistics of anyons.…
We study the influence of boundaries on chiral effects in hot dense relativistic spinor matter in a strong magnetic field which is transverse to bounding planes. The most general set of boundary conditions ensuring the confinement of matter…
Inspired by the Dirac model model of graphene, we consider a $(2+1)$-dimensional fermionic system in which fermions are described by four-component spinors. These fermions are proposed to interact with an electromagnetic field originating…
Two-component conductors -- e.g., semi-metals and narrow band semiconductors -- often exhibit unusually strong magnetoresistance in a wide temperature range. Suppression of the Hall voltage near charge neutrality in such systems gives rise…
A general analysis of Meissner effect and spin susceptibility of a uniform superconductor in an asymmetric two-component fermion system is presented in nonrelativistic field theory approach. We found that, the pairing mechanism dominates…
The low temperature and large volume effects in the d=2+1 antiferromagnetic quantum Heisenberg model are dominated by magnon excitations. The leading and next-to-leading corrections are fully controlled by three physical constants, the spin…
We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study boundary quantum electrodynamics, the theory of a four dimensional photon in a half space coupled to charged conformal matter on the boundary. This system is believed to be a boundary…
The magnetic catalysis of discrete chiral symmetry breaking in the 2+1 dimensional Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model is analyzed. A particular attention is paid to a possible application of the effect in solid state physics. The fermion contribution…
We study the electrodynamics of generic charged particles (bosons, fermions, relativistic or not) constrained to move on an infinite plane. An effective gauge theory in 2+1 dimensional spacetime which describes the real electromagnetic…