Anisotropic Quantum Hall Droplets
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Abstract: We study two-dimensional (2D) droplets of non-interacting electrons in a strong magnetic field, placed in a confining potential with arbitrary shape. Using semiclassical methods adapted to the lowest Landau level, we show that energy eigenstates are localized on level curves of the potential, with position-dependent local widths and heights. This one-particle insight allows us to deduce explicit formulas for many-body observables in the thermodynamic limit: the droplet's density falls off at the boundary with an inhomogeneous width inherited from the underlying wave functions, the many-body current exhibits a Gaussian jump at the edge, and correlations along the edge are long-ranged and inhomogeneous. We show that this is consistent with the system's universal low-energy description as a free 1D chiral conformal field theory of edge modes, known from earlier results in special geometries. Here, the theory is homogeneous in terms of the canonical angle variable of the potential, which follows from a delicate interplay between radial and angular dependencies of the eigenfunctions. These results are likely to be observable in solid-state systems or quantum simulators of 2D electron gases with a high degree of control on the confining potential.
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