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Title: Investigating Anisotropic Quantum Hall States with Bimetric Geometry

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics
  2. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
  3. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Princeton Center for Theoretical Science

We construct a low energy effective theory of anisotropic fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. We develop a formalism similar to that used in the bimetric approach to massive gravity, and apply it to describe Abelian anisotropic FQH states in the presence of external electromagnetic and geometric backgrounds. We derive a relationship between the shift, the Hall viscosity, and a new quantized coupling to anisotropy, which we term anisospin. We verify this relationship by numerically computing the Hall viscosity for a variety of anisotropic quantum Hall states using the density matrix renormalization group. Finally, we apply these techniques to the problem of nematic order and clarify certain disagreements that exist in the literature about the meaning of the coefficient of the Berry phase term in the nematic effective action.

Research Organization:
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0002140
OSTI ID:
1541231
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1398152
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 14; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 33 works
Citation information provided by
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Viscoelastic response of quantum Hall fluids in a tilted field journal January 2019
Anomalous Hall viscosity at the Weyl-semimetal–insulator transition journal May 2019
Unitary Extension of Exotic Massive 3D Gravity from Bigravity journal July 2019
Emergent Spacetime and Gravitational Nieh-Yan Anomaly in Chiral p + i p Weyl Superfluids and Superconductors journal March 2020
Hall viscosity in the non-Abelian quantum Hall matrix model text January 2018
Bulk-Boundary Correspondence in the Quantum Hall Effect text January 2018
Hall viscosity and geometric response in the Chern-Simons matrix model of the Laughlin states text January 2018
Viscoelastic response of quantum Hall fluids in a tilted field text January 2018
Anomalous Hall viscosity at the Weyl semimetal/insulator transition text January 2019
Interaction-dependent anisotropy of fractional quantum Hall states text January 2019
Emergent spacetime and gravitational Nieh-Yan anomaly in chiral $p+ip$ Weyl superfluids and superconductors text January 2019

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