Application of braid groups in 2D Hall system physics. Composite fermion structure.
Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)
The phenomenon of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) was discovered by Daniel Tsui and Horst Störmer in 1982. It occurs in two dimensional electron systems in the presence of a strong orthogonal magnetic field, and corresponds to fractional filling of the lowest Landau level. In this book, the main goal of the authors is to understand the Laughlin correlations and the structure of the composite fermions in terms of braid groups.NEWLINENEWLINEThe book begins with a short introductory chapter on the role of topological effects in physics, which sets the tone for what follows. In Chapter 2, the authors describe the Laughlin correlation function and the traditional way of viewing composite fermions. This is then followed by a chapter on topological methods in which we find an introduction to the braid group, its one dimensional unitary representations and the role they play in quantization via Feynman propagators. Chapter 4 is the heart of the book. In this chapter, the authors introduce the cyclotron braid subgroup of the full braid group and make use of it to understand various aspects of the FQHE. Chapter 5 is concerned with a number of recent progress in the field initiated by the discovery of Tsui and Störmer. Here we find descriptions of several recent graphene experiments as well as an introduction to the novel concept of topological insulators. The authors then give a summary of the book in Chapter 6. The last chapter, Chapter 7, is essentially an appendix where some of the background information on 2D Hall systems and the fundamental group are given.
- Quantum Hall systems
- Quantum groups and non-Abelian braiding in quantum Hall systems
- Composite fermions in braid group terms
- Spinning braid-group representation and the fractional quantum Hall effect
- Group \(\Gamma(2)\) and the fractional quantum Hall effect
- Braided bosonization and inhomogeneous quantum groups
- Majorana fermions and representations of the braid group
- Majorana Fermions and representations of the braid group
- Anyons associated with the generalized braid groups
- Braiding and Majorana fermions
- Anyons in geometric models of matter
- Strong fermion interactions in fractional quantum Hall states. Correlation functions
- Spinning braid-group representation and the fractional quantum Hall effect
- Topological approach to electron correlations at fractional quantum Hall effect
- Energy bands for finite two-dimensional systems in a quantised magnetic field: the symmetry of the model
- Braid group, gauge invariance, and topological order
- Explanation of composite fermion structure in fractional quantum Hall systems
- Composite fermions in braid group terms
- Composite Fermions
- Quantum Hall systems
- Cyclotron toroidal braids: a cure for portrayal composite fermions on a torus
- Cyclotron braid group approach to Laughlin correlations
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