Non-Abelian fermionization and fractional quantum Hall transitions
Abstract
There has been a recent surge of interest in dualities relating theories of Chern-Simons gauge fields coupled to either bosons or fermions within the condensed matter community, particularly in the context of topological insulators and the half-filled Landau level. Here, we study the application of one such duality to the long-standing problem of quantum Hall interplateaux transitions. The key motivating experimental observations are the anomalously large value of the correlation length There has been a recent surge of interest in dualities relating theories of Chern-Simons gauge fields coupled to either bosons or fermions within the condensed matter community, particularly in the context of topological insulators and the half-filled Landau level. Here, we study the application of one such duality to the long-standing problem of quantum Hall inter-plateaux transitions. The key motivating experimental observations are the anomalously large value of the correlation length exponent $$\nu \approx 2.3$$ and that $$\nu$$ is observed to be super-universal, i.e., the same in the vicinity of distinct critical points [S.L. Sondhi et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. \textbf{69}, 315 (1997)]. Duality motivates effective descriptions for a fractional quantum Hall plateau transition involving a Chern-Simons field with $$U(N_c)$$ gauge group coupled to $$N_f = 1$$ fermion. We study one class of theories in a controlled limit where $$N_f \gg N_c$$ and calculate $$\nu$$ to leading non-trivial order in the absence of disorder. Although these theories do not yield an anomalously large exponent $$\nu$$ within the large $$N_f \gg N_c$$ expansion, they do offer a new parameter space of theories that is apparently different from prior works involving abelian Chern-Simons gauge fields [X.-G. Wen and Y.-S. Wu, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{70}, 1501 (1993); W. Chen. et al., Phys. Rev. B. \textbf{48}, 13749 (1993)].
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- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1423635
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1419905
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- SC0010313
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Hui, Aaron, Mulligan, Michael, and Kim, Eun-Ah. Non-Abelian fermionization and fractional quantum Hall transitions. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.085112.
Hui, Aaron, Mulligan, Michael, & Kim, Eun-Ah. Non-Abelian fermionization and fractional quantum Hall transitions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.085112
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@article{osti_1423635,
title = {Non-Abelian fermionization and fractional quantum Hall transitions},
author = {Hui, Aaron and Mulligan, Michael and Kim, Eun-Ah},
abstractNote = {There has been a recent surge of interest in dualities relating theories of Chern-Simons gauge fields coupled to either bosons or fermions within the condensed matter community, particularly in the context of topological insulators and the half-filled Landau level. Here, we study the application of one such duality to the long-standing problem of quantum Hall interplateaux transitions. The key motivating experimental observations are the anomalously large value of the correlation length There has been a recent surge of interest in dualities relating theories of Chern-Simons gauge fields coupled to either bosons or fermions within the condensed matter community, particularly in the context of topological insulators and the half-filled Landau level. Here, we study the application of one such duality to the long-standing problem of quantum Hall inter-plateaux transitions. The key motivating experimental observations are the anomalously large value of the correlation length exponent $\nu \approx 2.3$ and that $\nu$ is observed to be super-universal, i.e., the same in the vicinity of distinct critical points [S.L. Sondhi et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. \textbf{69}, 315 (1997)]. Duality motivates effective descriptions for a fractional quantum Hall plateau transition involving a Chern-Simons field with $U(N_c)$ gauge group coupled to $N_f = 1$ fermion. We study one class of theories in a controlled limit where $N_f \gg N_c$ and calculate $\nu$ to leading non-trivial order in the absence of disorder. Although these theories do not yield an anomalously large exponent $\nu$ within the large $N_f \gg N_c$ expansion, they do offer a new parameter space of theories that is apparently different from prior works involving abelian Chern-Simons gauge fields [X.-G. Wen and Y.-S. Wu, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{70}, 1501 (1993); W. Chen. et al., Phys. Rev. B. \textbf{48}, 13749 (1993)].},
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