Local incompressibility estimates for the Laughlin phase

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Publication:1720189

DOI10.1007/S00220-018-3181-1zbMATH Open1410.82009arXiv1701.09064OpenAlexW2585098560WikidataQ129621416 ScholiaQ129621416MaRDI QIDQ1720189FDOQ1720189


Authors: E. H. Lieb, N. Rougerie, J. Yngvason Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 February 2019

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove sharp density upper bounds on optimal length-scales for the ground states of classical 2D Coulomb systems and generalizations thereof. Our method is new, based on an auxiliary Thomas-Fermi-like variational model. Moreover, we deduce density upper bounds for the related low-temperature Gibbs states. Our motivation comes from fractional quantum Hall physics, more precisely, the perturbation of the Laughlin state by external potentials or impurities. These give rise to a class of many-body wave-functions that have the form of a product of the Laughlin state and an analytic function of many variables. This class is related via Laughlin's plasma analogy to Gibbs states of the generalized classical Coulomb systems we consider. Our main result shows that the perturbation of the Laughlin state cannot increase the particle density anywhere, with implications for the response of FQHE systems to external perturbations.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.09064




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