Solvable models for neutral modes in fractional quantum Hall edges
| Autor: | Chris Heinrich, Michael Levin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) Scattering Mode (statistics) FOS: Physical sciences 02 engineering and technology Quantum Hall effect 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Stability (probability) Electric charge Ionized impurity scattering Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons Exact solutions in general relativity Quantum mechanics Quantum electrodynamics 0103 physical sciences Abelian group 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology |
| Popis: | We describe solvable models that capture how impurity scattering in certain fractional quantum Hall edges can give rise to a neutral mode --- i.e. an edge mode that does not carry electric charge. These models consist of two counter-propagating chiral Luttinger liquids together with a collection of discrete impurity scatterers. Our main result is an exact solution of these models in the limit of infinitely strong impurity scattering. From this solution, we explicitly derive the existence of a neutral mode and we determine all of its microscopic properties including its velocity. We also study the stability of the neutral mode and show that it survives at finite but sufficiently strong scattering. Our results are applicable to a family of Abelian fractional quantum Hall states of which the $\nu = 2/3$ state is the most prominent example. Comment: Published version |
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