Large N spin quantum Hall effect

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00352-2MaRDI QIDQ5944271zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. Bernard, N. Regnault, Didina Serban

Publication date 4 October 2001

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104506

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization group transformationssigma modelsp(2N) algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Abstract: We introduce a large N version of the spin quantum Hall transition problem. It is formulated as a problem of Dirac fermions coupled to disorder, whose Hamiltonian belong to the symmetry class C. The fermions carry spin degrees of freedom valued in the algebra sp(2N), the spin quantum Hall effect corresponding to N=1. Arguments based on renormalization group transformations as well as on a sigma model formulation, valid in the large N limit, indicate the existence of a crossover as N varies. Contrary to the N=1 case, the large N models are shown to lead to localized states at zero energy. We also present a sigma model analysis for the system of Dirac fermions coupled to only sp(2N) random gauge potentials, which reproduces known exact results.

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