Maxwell-Chern-Simons electrodynamics on a disk

DOI10.1142/S0217751X94001357MaRDI QIDQ2775210zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. P. Balachandran, L. Chandar, E. Ercolessi, Thupil R. Govindarajan, R. Shankar

Publication date 26 February 2002

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9309051

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: The Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) Lagrangian is the Maxwell Lagrangian augmented by the Chern-Simons (CS) term. In this paper, we study the MCS and Maxwell Lagrangians on a disk $D$. They are of interest for the quantum Hall effect, and also when the disk and its exterior are composed of different media. We show that quantization is not unique, but depends on a nonnegative parameter $lambda$. $1/lambda$ is the penetration depth of the fields into the medium in the exterior of $D$. For $lambda=0$, there are edge observables and edge states localized at the boundary $partialD$ for the MCS system. They describe the affine Lie group $ildeLU(1)$. Their excitations carry zero energy signifying an infinite degeneracy of all states of the theory. There is also an additional infinity of single particle excitations of exactly the same energy proportional to $|k|$, $k$ being the strength of the CS term. The MCS theory for $lambda=0$ has the huge symmetry group $ildeLU(1)imesU(infty)$. In the Maxwell theory, the last mentioned excitations are absent while the edge observables, which exist for $lambda=0$, commute. Also these excitations are described by states which are not localized at $partialD$ and are characterized by a continuous and infinitely degenerate spectrum. All these degeneracies are lifted and edge observables and their states cease to exist for $lambda>0$. The novel excitations discovered in this paper should be accessible to observations. We will discuss issues related to observations, as

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