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Title: Electron-quasihole duality and second-order differential equation for Read-Rezayi and Jack wave functions

Journal Article · · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  2. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
  3. LPTMS, UMR 8626, CNRS-Universite Paris-Sud, Batiment 100, 91405 Orsay (France)

We consider the quasihole wave functions of the non-Abelian Read-Rezayi quantum-Hall states which are given by the conformal blocks of the minimal model WA{sub k-1}(k+1,k+2) of the WA{sub k-1} algebra. By studying the degenerate representations of this conformal field theories, we derive a second-order differential equation satisfied by a general many-quasihole wave function. We find a duality between the differential equations fixing the electron and quasihole wave functions. They both satisfy the Laplace-Beltrami equation. We use this equation to obtain an analytic expression for the generic wave function with one excess flux. These results also apply to the more general models WA{sub k-1}(k+1,k+r) corresponding to the recently introduced Jack states.

OSTI ID:
21502892
Journal Information:
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 82, Issue 20; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.205307; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1098-0121
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English