A CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY DESCRIPTION OF THE PAIRED AND PARAFERMIONIC STATES IN THE QUANTUM HALL EFFECT

DOI10.1142/S021773230000219XzbMath0969.81070arXivcond-mat/0003453MaRDI QIDQ4523565

Vincenzo E. Marotta, Gerardo Cristofano, Giuseppe Maiella

Publication date: 14 January 2001

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0003453

zbMATH Keywords

scalar fields; ground state wave function; Kac-Moody algebra; vertex operator; parafermions; twisted boundary conditions; chiral primary fields; quantum Hall fluid; Jain hierarchical fillings; nonstandard fillings; quasi-hole excitations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

81V70: Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect

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