Towards a field theory of fractional quantum hall states

R. Shankar, Ganpathy Murthy

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Abstract

We present a Chern-Simons theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect in which flux attachment is followed by a transformation that effectively attaches the correlation holes. We extract the correlated wave functions, compute the drift and cyclotron currents (due to inhomogeneous density), exhibit the Read operator and operators that create quasiparticles and quasiholes. We show how the bare kinetic energy can get quenched and replaced by one due to interactions. We find that for v = 1/2 the low energy theory has neutral quasiparticles and give the effective Hamiltonian and constraints.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4437-4440
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume79
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997

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  • Physics and Astronomy (all)

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