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Charged Vortex and Duality in Three-Dimensional Abelian Gauge Theory with a Chern-Simons Term

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1449164· OSTI ID:1449164
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
The duality property of the three-dimensional Abelian Higgs model with a ChernSimons term is discussed. It is argued that in a certain limit the charged vortices in the original theory can be described by a dual gauge theory with also a Chern-Simons term. The duality relations between the couplings of the two theories are thus obtained. The relevance of this duality to the fractional quantized Hall effect, in particular, the Laughlin-Haldane-Halperin hierarchy, is discussed.
Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1449164
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB--5197
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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